In good fah? U.S. legal battle over gay adoptn tensifi | Rters

Contents:

• IN GOOD FAH? U.S. LEGAL BATTLE OVER GAY ADOPTN TENSIFI
• AGAST GAY ADOPTN QUOT & SAYGS
• GAY ADOPTN QUOT
• OUR PARENTS ARE GAY. ARE OUR FAI GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE SUPREME COURT?
• WHAT DO THE BIBLE HAVE TO SAY ABOUT GAY ADOPTN?

IN GOOD FAH? U.S. LEGAL BATTLE OVER GAY ADOPTN TENSIFI

“It’s hurtful that they’re willg to work wh me for immigratn expertise, but somehow still thk I’m aquate as a person to take re of a child, ” said Marouf - one of two gay upl sug the U. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said the Department did not ment on pendg natn’s top urt is set to wa to the latg nflict between gay rights and relig eedom as s next term startg October, the U.

AGAST GAY ADOPTN QUOT & SAYGS

”FOSTER PARENTSAdvot fear excludg LGBT+ upl om adoptn or foster re uld lim the number of potential hom for needy children, particularly given gay men and lbians are far more likely to adopt and foster children than their straight 400, 000 children are foster re the Uned Stat, about a quarter of whom are wag to be adopted, acrdg to U. ”LGBT+ rights groups argue that is illegal for relig groups that receive taxpayer-fund grants to ny equal rights to prospective gay parents.

Supreme Court legalized gay marriage natnwi 2015, while a seri of subsequent urt lgs have ma adoptn by same-sex upl legal all 50 LGBT+ parents ntue to face wispread discrimatn when to adoptg or raisg children. A 2019 study om Tufts Medil Center found that almost two-thirds of gay fathers the Uned Stat experience stigma as homosexual dads, most often relig a 2015 Universy of Oregon survey of 19, 000 studi related to same-sex parentg found that children raised by gay and lbian upl were no different than those raised by parents of the oppose relig groups, the qutn is not whether gay men and lbians are f to be parents, but rather their relig objectn to homosexual unns the first place.

GAY ADOPTN QUOT

A Washgton Post/ABC poll nducted March found that 70 percent of adults unr age 40 support gay marriage. Supreme Court has led that gay married upl nnot be nied feral benefs. But gay upl tryg to adopt children learn that both legal and cultural impediments still exist.

Most stat lack legal protectns to guard agast favorg heterosexual parents over gays and lbians adoptn and foster re placements, and the landspe has historilly been uniendly toward same-sex upl as parents. A 1977 law Florida that stood for more than 30 years exprsly forba any homosexual person om adoptg a child.

Legal problems for gay and lbian parents extend beyond U. The narrowg opportuny has already been effectively cut off for the gay muny. Dawn Davenport, executive director of Creatg a Fay, a nonprof tn and advocy anizatn, advis agast a gay or lbian uple tryg an out-of-untry arrangement.

OUR PARENTS ARE GAY. ARE OUR FAI GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE SUPREME COURT?

"Que ankly, 's not ually a good choice bee most foreign untri do not knowgly place a child wh homosexual parents, " she says. Anrson did not say he would turn away a gay uple seekg to adopt.

Catholic Chari USA shut down s state-supported foster re and adoptn programs Illois 2011 rather than ply wh a newly passed state law prohibg bias agast the gay muny the placement of children. For earlier generatns of gay men, marriage and parentg weren't typilly the plan. "In the '90s, the gay story was very much about personal acceptance, " he says.

Johns Hopks soclogist Andrew Cherl puts bluntly: "Sometim gay men are left to adopt the children that no one else really wants.

WHAT DO THE BIBLE HAVE TO SAY ABOUT GAY ADOPTN?

She is an expert the psychology of sexual orientatn, wh her first published work on the children of gay and lbian parents appearg more than 20 years ago. Instead, children of gay parents are subject to the same fluenc as children of heterosexual upl. "The factors that affect all children's velopment affect the velopment of children wh lbian and gay parents—enomic factors are important, for example, " Patterson says.

There is nothg about beg homosexual that mak one ill-sued for parenthood.

He has noted a particular doggedns that characteriz gay men who achieve parenthood.