Adoption Agency Rejects Catholic Parents
A Christian adoption agency that receives money from Choose Life license plate fees said it does not place children with Roman Catholic couples because their religion conflicts with the agency's "Statement of Faith."
Bethany Christian Services stated the policy in a letter to a Jackson couple this month, and another Mississippi couple said they were rejected for the same reason last year.
"It has been our understanding that Catholicism does not agree with our Statement of Faith," Bethany's state director Karen Stewart wrote. "Our practice to not accept applications from Catholics was an effort to be good stewards of an adoptive applicant's time, money and emotional energy."
Sandy and Robert Steadman, who learned of Bethany's decision in a July 8 letter, said their priest told them the faith statement did not conflict with Catholic teaching.
Loria Williams of nearby Ridgeland said she and her husband, Wes, had a similar experience when they started to pursue an adoption in September 2004.
"I can't believe an agency that's nationwide would act like this," Loria Williams said. "There was an agency who was Christian based but wasn't willing to help people across the board." Read the rest of the article HERE.
posted by Pat Campbell @ 12:34 PM
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Excuse me? I thought that an adoption agency's job was to "To take into one's family through legal means and raise as one's own child." as stated in the dictionary! I believe it is against the law to take public funds and use them for religious, or anti-religious purposes. Where is the outcry here? This whole stance is against all we stand for ... where is all the "tolerance"?
Statement of faith ... more like statement of prejudice!!
"Judge not lest ye be judged."
Much is being done in the name of religion - the problem is that differing beliefs cause issues that are based on idiots that think they are right and that they have the right to inflict their beliefs on others. I always have to shake my head and laugh when I hear that something like this is done - in the name of christianity.
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