We received this news from a reader:
The Virginia Department of Social Services (VDSS) has proposed regulations to require state licensed adoption agencies in Virginia, including private church-run adoption agencies, to not refuse to process adoption of children based on sexual orientation. If these new regs are adopted, even private, church-run agencies would be required to process adoption applications by same-sex couples.
The VDSS is requesting comments from the public on this proposal. The comment period ends tonight at 11:59 PM today. Please leave a comment and help us spread the word!
Driving religious foster care and adoption agencies out of business appears to be the only real purpose of new regs proposed by the Virigina Dept. of Social Services.
Write to the government of Virginia and tell them: Do not hurt needy children, by driving religious foster care and adoption agencies out of the business of helping needy kids. If an agency provides good parents for children, they should be embraced --not rejected-- by the state of Virginia.
The message of exclusion government will send to children with strong religious identities, as well as to potential religious foster and adoptive parents, is unconscionable and destructive.
The State of Virginia's Social Services has no right to impose this strange new morality regulations on other people, to the detriment of the neediest children in our state.
Write today and tell a friend.
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10 Comments
This is an attack upon religious liberty by the government. We saw it coming..
I believe that religious organizations that provide adoption or foster services should be able to discriminate; as long as they receive no funding from the government, including tax exemption.
It is perfectly fine to get funding from the government if you discriminate against Christians.
Let's see, religion or sexuality, which one is protected by the Constitution? Which do we value more, childrens' opportunity to have a mom and a dad or homosexuals' demand for recognition of their disordered condition as normal?
Up is down, gay is sad, immoral is moral, and moral is immoral. All because some people choose an inherently non-procreative lifestyle over a procreative one and think they should get special treatment. What a sad state of affairs. The former inmates (literally) are running the insitution.
"I believe that religious organizations that provide adoption or foster services should be able to discriminate; as long as they receive no funding from the government, including tax exemption."
Just when I thought SSM won't threaten the tax exempt status of religions, I read a comment like this.
If there are so few SS couples wanting to adopt, (compared to married couples) then why does every adoption agency have to place children with SS couples? Why force this on all adoption agencies?
@ MikeP. Who is getting tax exempt status that as you say "descriminates against Christians"? And Mike B. Who gave you the tools to determine what is moral and what is immoral UNDER THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES? You confuse "special treatment" with EQUAL treatment.
@ConservativeNY. SSM do not threaten the tax exempt status of religions! When religions violate the laws of this great nation, they alone threaten their own tax exempt status.
Everyone already has Equal treatment. Anything more is special treatment. Why give marriage status based simply on the requirement that two people "love" each other? Don't polyamorists love each other too? They can have kids too. Somehow that arrangement just doesn't benefit society like the family does. A mom and dad, dedicated to each other and their children for life, is the strongest, most stable arrangement society has ever had. It's been time tested and proven through the generations, in countless independently evolving civilizations across the earth. SSM is just the newest flavor of deviancy to become popular. Do what you want to make yourself happy, but when it comes down to building society, the family is the best option out there. Society must promote and defend the natural family in order to maintain stability.
"SSM do not threaten the tax exempt status of religions! When religions violate the laws of this great nation, they alone threaten their own tax exempt status."
Oh sure, blame the victim. As if favoring the values that support the natural family is illegal. Well it isn't, at least, not yet. Not unless the government forces the moral standards of homosexuals onto society in the form of activist judges and misguided legislatures.