Tag: foster parents
Supreme Court hears Philadelphia foster parent dispute pitting religious freedom against LGBTQ rights
The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed likely to side with a Catholic social services agency in a dispute with Philadelphia over the agency’s refusal to work with same-sex couples as foster parents.
Alabama Bill Would Jeopardise Children in Need of Families
On Tuesday, the Alabama House approved a dangerous bill that would allow adoption and foster care agencies with “sincerely held religious beliefs” to discriminate against prospective parents.
National Child Welfare Advocates Issue Letter Opposing Nebraska ’s Anti-LGBT Adoption Bill
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organisation today released a letter from leading national child welfare agencies opposing a bill in the Nebraska Unicam, LB 975, which would enshrine discrimination into Nebraska law by allowing taxpayer-funded adoption agencies to reject prospective parents based on “the child placing agency’s sincerely held religious beliefs.”
HRC Takes Adoption and Foster Care Work to Next Level, Launches Next Phase of “All Children – All Families” Project
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation, the educational arm of the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organisation, in partnership with the Dave Thomas Foundation and the National CASA Foundation, last Monday announced the expansion of the highly successful All Children – All Families (ACAF) project.