In their zeal to stop gay people from adopting kids in need, conservatives have empowered state-funded agencies to turn away anyone they deem unsuitable.
By Jay Michaelson
Aimee Maddonna is the kind of foster parent that child welfare
agencies dream of: a married mom of three children, two of them with
special needs, and hoping to foster kids who also have special needs. No
surprise that when she visited the largest child-welfare agency in her
hometown of Greenville, South Carolina, she passed all of the screening
tests with flying colors.
Until she told them she was Catholic. That’s when her application was summarily rejected.
That’s because the agency in question, the state-funded, evangelical-run Miracle Hill Ministries only places children with “born again”
Christian parents. In 2018, South Carolina’s Republican governor, Henry
McMaster, issued an executive order specifically allowing this
discrimination and asked for a federal waiver
to allow Miracle Hill to receive federal taxpayer dollars disbursed by
the state and turn away not just LGBT people, unmarried people, and
anyone else they deemed religiously unfit, but non-evangelical
Christians and Jews too. (At least two Jewish couples have also been denied by Miracle Hill.)
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Source: The Daily Beast
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