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According to the Family Research Council, there is a war on faith-based adoption agencies:
National Adoption Month Kicks off with Attack on Faith
November 20, 2018
By FRC's Mary Beth Waddell, Senior Legislative Assistant
While millions of American were voting, Philadelphia foster parents were in court fighting the government's attempt to shut down Catholic Charities adoption and foster care services because it is faith-based. Nearly half
of all Catholic Charities adoptions nationally are for special needs
children, so their permanent closure would be especially devastating. It
was a somber launch to National Adoption Month for children seeking
families.
In March of 2018, the City of Philadelphia (the city) put out an urgent call for foster parents. Despite this urgent need and within days of this call, the City terminated its foster placement contracts
with Catholic Charities and Bethany Christian Services -- two of its
nearly thirty partner agencies, because they were faith-based. This has
resulted in empty foster homes
and children left languishing because fewer agencies are working on
their behalf. One such empty foster home was Cecelia Paul's. She had
fostered over 130 children, adopted six, and been named "Foster Parent
of the Year." Other foster parents, like Sharonell Fulton,
who is caring for two special needs children, may not be able to
continue fostering because they no longer have access to the training,
resources, and support of Catholic Charities -- which she and others
have observed as superior to that of government agencies.
Worse yet, sibling groups are in danger of not being placed together.
When another agency transferred a child into Catholic Charities'
custody so that it could be placed with its sibling already in Catholic
Charities' care, the city didn't respond favorably. Although the city
didn't separate the siblings, it sent a notice to its partner agencies
demanding written acknowledgment of the referral contract termination;
thus, indicating that siblings would not automatically be placed
together.
Taking a page from fellow anti-LGBTQ hate group the Alliance Defending Freedom, FRC looks to to cover up the truth of the matter. Just as ADF
exploited baker Jack Phillips in the Masterpiece case to distort the issue of "religious liberty" to a situation about a cake instead of what it actually was about (using religion as an excuse to discriminate), FRC is exploiting Ms. Paul and Ms. Fulton, the caregivers in piece above, to hide what this issue is about.
In actuality, the city of Philadelphia did not terminate the contracts with the agencies because they were faith-based. The contracts were terminated
BECAUSE the agencies would not work with same-sex couples, which was a violation of the contract with the city.
