According to this story at EWTN,
Rep. Pete Stark (D-Calif.) introduced the bill, titled “Every Child Deserves a Family Act,” on May 3. Its 52 co-sponsors in the House include Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). Sen. Kristin Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) is expected to introduce companion legislation in the Senate.
Peter Sprigg, senior fellow for policy studies at the Family Research Council believes:
“It would have the effect of either banning Christian adoption agencies or forbidding them from acting on their faith convictions and their moral convictions in terms of what is in the best interest of a child.”
The House bill, which you can see here,
would prohibit “discrimination in adoption or foster care placements” based on sexual orientation, gender identity or marital status of any prospective adoptive or foster parent, or the sexual orientation or gender identity of the child involved.
"The bill would affect any adoption or foster care agency that receives federal assistance or contracts with an entity that receives federal assistance."
This is not surprising. The official policy of the federal government of the United States of America is neutral, which really means it is unprincipled. I say unprincipled because with traditional marriage, there are clear definitions and boundaries; with the new sixties sexual regime anything goes. Polygamy waits in the wings. And why shouldn't a bisexual man married to a heterosexual woman and to a gay man have the right to have a son and a daughter by adoption?
While children are the least concern of the politicians, despite what they say, and the gay activists have moved this agenda along, there is a lot of blame that should go to society as a whole: marriage was consumed by the sexual revolution. Take this quote from a story at Philly.com about a report that married households are now less than half of all households.
Jo Soroka didn't need to see the latest census data to believe one of the more jarring findings: that married couples head fewer than half the households in Pennsylvania and the country.
When Soroka opened the Sonrise Christian Day School in Linwood, Delaware County, in 1995, she had only a half-dozen single parents on her rolls. Now more than two-thirds of her clients are single parents.
Soroka recalled the morning two years ago when a boy asked a classmate about the man who had accompanied her and her mother to school. "That's my daddy," the girl said."No," the boy shot back. "Daddies don't live with mommies."
Increasingly, he's right, the census found.
Here's the text of the act: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/C?c112:./temp/~c1129e6ig3
Posted by: GL | May 31, 2011 at 03:51 PM
Well, try this link: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr1681ih/pdf/BILLS-112hr1681ih.pdf. (The earlier link times out.)
Posted by: GL | May 31, 2011 at 04:49 PM