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In a letter sent last week to Catholic Charities in the dioceses of Peoria, Joliet, Springfield and Belleville, the Department of Children and Family Services told all four agencies that the state could not accept its signed contracts for the 2012 fiscal year because “your agency has made it clear that it does not intend to comply with the Illinois Religious Freedom Protection and Civil Union Act.”
Why? Because Catholics won't give children to homosexual couples.
"Illinois Religious Freedom Protection and Civil Union Act.”?
Kind of an ironic name for the law, isn't it?
When I was 15 I would rather have been left in an orphanage.
But couldn't they have equally loving homes with Doug and Bruce?
Absolutely, they could. But if an agency has a good record of placing children in good homes (which I'm assuming Catholic Charities does--or else IL wouldn't have worked with them this long) then I see no reason to sever the contract and take up an additional contract with an agency that will also give to gay couples. I'm sure Catholic Charities wasn't the only agency they worked through.
Absolutely, they could. But if an agency has a good record of placing children in good homes (which I'm assuming Catholic Charities does--or else IL wouldn't have worked with them this long) then I see no reason to sever the contract and take up an additional contract with an agency that will also give to gay couples. I'm sure Catholic Charities wasn't the only agency they worked through.
Not anti-gay, just my two cents.
Because the government wants their contractors to meet its terms.
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