Tag: adoption
Lesbian couple adopted 3 brothers not to separate them
KC and Lena Currie got married five years ago. In 2018 they visited a meeting of a children’s charity group where they saw an...
Tennessee just banned same-sex adopters
Faith-based adoption agencies in Tennessee are now allowed to deny LGBT adopters and to use their religion as a reasonable basis for this denial....
Israel bans LGBT people from adopting kids from Russia
Israel and Russia have signed a deal banning LGBT+ people from adopting Russian children, Russia insisted on this decision for a decade. Ze’ev Elkin,...
Tennessee governor signed a bill against gay adoptions into law
The governor of Tennessee Bill Lee has given a green light to the bill which was designed to allow the adoption agencies owned by...
Nearly 150 companies, including Nike and Amazon, campaign against gay adoption...
Amazon, Nike, American Airlines and nearly 150 other companies expressed their opposition to the b5rand new law that allows adoption agencies to reject potential...
LGBT Brits adopt more, while the general ratings drop
The number of adoptions by LGBT+ couples has reached a record high, according to the Department for Education, while the overall number of adoptions...
Judge allowed a Catholic adoption agency to discriminate against LGBT adopters
District Judge Robert Jonker sided with a Catholic adoption agency that refuses to place children in homes with LGBT+ parents, even though the state’s...
Religious adoption agencies fight for the right to ban same-sex parents
A lawsuit was filed last week by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty on behalf of St Vincent’s Catholic Charities and other faith-based adoption...
Tennessee could allow discrimination against LGBT adopters
The Tennessee House of Representatives has passed a bill that would allow adoption providers to decline certain categories of people in case if their...
Tennessee is to issue a bill against gay adoptions
Two bills filed in the Tennessee General Assembly could allow adoption agencies to use religion as an excuse to decline potential adoptive parents. If...
