U.S. District Judge Robert J. Yonker has halted implementation of a new policy in Michigan that forces faith-based adoption agencies to choose between violating their beliefs on same-sex marriage or closing their doors. In his written opinion, Yonker says that the original policy in place for years already âensures non-discrimination in child placements,â but the new policy âwould replace this with a State-orthodoxy test that prevents Catholic believers from participating.â
As readers learned last April, this new policy was the work of Michiganâs renegade attorney general Dana Nessel, who used her authority to settle a pretextual discrimination lawsuit, Dumont v. Gordon, filed by the ACLU on behalf of two lesbian couples targeting Christian agencies. Nessel and the ACLU came up with a settlement agreement requiring all State contracts with private adoption agencies to include a ânon-discrimination provisionâ that prohibits an adoption agency from even referring LGBTQ couples to another agency. Yonker writes that, under the AGâs new rules, a faith-based adoption agency âmust choose between its traditional religious belief, and the privilege of continuing to place children with foster and adoptive parents of all types.â
What is the percentage of girls being adopted to lesbian couples and boys adopted to gay men?