(GOP USA) – Bethany Christian Services, a faith-based adoption agency in Michigan, has opted to allow LGBTQ couples to adopt children in order to comply with a new state rule banning discrimination against gay parents. “Bethany will continue operations in Michigan, in compliance with our legal contract requirements,” an adoption agency spokesman said Wednesday. “The mission and beliefs of Bethany
Christian Services have not changed.” The agency is responsible for 8% of Michigan’s more than 13,000 adoptions and foster-child placements each year. Last month, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services announced that adoption and foster agencies that discriminate against LGBTQ parents would not receive state referrals. State Attorney General Dana Nessel also announced in March that her office no longer would defend a 2015 law that allowed child-placement agencies to cite religious exemptions for not contracting with LGBTQ couples. She cited a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services guideline that bans discrimination against same-sex couples. READ MORE
