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Australia: Churches push same-sex adoption ban

By Alliance Alert

Sydney Morning Herald: "The main adoption agency for infants in Sydney, Anglicare, has written to state MPs urging them to vote against a bill that would allow same-sex couples to adopt when it is debated in Parliament later this month . . . Last year, a Legislative Council committee recommended by a narrow margin that same-sex couples be allowed to adopt. However, the committee also said faith-based adoption agencies should be exempt from anti-discrimination legislation, so long as they refer any same-sex couples who seek their services to another adoption agency."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on August 06, 2010 (boomark / email).