Major Evangelical Adoption Agency Will Now Serve Gay Parents Nationwide

[public hermit]

One of the country’s largest adoption and foster care agencies, Bethany Christian Services, announced on Monday that it would begin providing services to L.G.B.T.Q. parents nationwide effective immediately, a major inflection point in the fraught battle over many faith-based agencies’ longstanding opposition to working with same-sex couples.

Bethany, a Michigan-based evangelical organization, announced the change in an email to about 1,500 staff members that was signed by Chris Palusky, the organization’s president and chief executive. “We will now offer services with the love and compassion of Jesus to the many types of families who exist in our world today,” Mr. Palusky wrote. “We’re taking an ‘all hands on deck’ approach where all are welcome.”

Major Evangelical Adoption Agency Will Now Serve Gay Parents Nationwide

 

[public hermit]

On the one hand they know they will lose some donors, and some of the pool of evangelicals that want to adopt (although I doubt much of the later). On the other, they will probably gain donors, and the pool of LGBTQ couples wanting to adopt is growing.

I'm sure there will be plenty of hand wringing and pearl clutching, but I doubt it will have much adverse effect on the organization. We'll see.

 

[Occams Barber]

One of the country’s largest adoption and foster care agencies, Bethany Christian Services, announced on Monday that it would begin providing services to L.G.B.T.Q. parents nationwide effective immediately, a major inflection point in the fraught battle over many faith-based agencies’ longstanding opposition to working with same-sex couples.

Bethany, a Michigan-based evangelical organization, announced the change in an email to about 1,500 staff members that was signed by Chris Palusky, the organization’s president and chief executive. “We will now offer services with the love and compassion of Jesus to the many types of families who exist in our world today,” Mr. Palusky wrote. “We’re taking an ‘all hands on deck’ approach where all are welcome.”

Major Evangelical Adoption Agency Will Now Serve Gay Parents Nationwide

A sensible shift.

It will be interesting to see what, if any, backlash, comes out of the evangelical community.

OB

 

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[Paulomycin]

Mmm-hmm. Now then, note how much they favor raising a child within a gender-biased household. . .

 

[Taodeching]

Such a pity that some evangelicals want to be loved by the world more than wanting truth.

 

[Sketcher]

I just love evangelicals. They've never found a moral issue they couldn't equivocate on or compromise.

Not that I support Bethany's decision, but:

They had to have considered how the Catholic adoption services in liberal cities chose to close and stop providing adoption services at all. Are orphaned children in those cities better off or worse off because of that decision?

 

[mama2one]

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[Kenny'sID]

On the one hand they know they will lose some donors, and some of the pool of evangelicals that want to adopt (although I doubt much of the later). On the other, they will probably gain donors, and the pool of LGBTQ couples wanting to adopt is growing.

I'm sure there will be plenty of hand wringing and pearl clutching, but I doubt it will have much adverse effect on the organization. We'll see.

Yep, they would not have done it, if it was going to hurt them...it may even help them.

Sad, but a sign of the times, and not a good sign.

 

[Kenny'sID]

I found the following article on how the children of gay parents turn out interesting, and just as expected.

Children of homosexuals more apt to be homosexuals? A reply to Morrison and to Cameron based on an examination of multiple sources of data - PubMed

 

[bèlla]

I found the following article on how the children of gay parents turn out interesting, and just as expected.

What does that say about homosexuals reared in Christian homes? Do they get a Satan pass?

Yours in His Service,

~bella

 

[Sophrosyne]

Seems they have been under pressure to do this for some time now this isn't a new thing for them.
https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/201...-kids-in-lgbt-homes-after-michigan-settlement

 

[thecolorsblend]

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[Kenny'sID]

What does that say about homosexuals reared in Christian homes? Do they get a Satan pass?

Yours in His Service,

~bella

Whoosh! Right over my head.

 

[Sketcher]

Here comes the evangelical equivocating and compromising.

Golly, nobody could've predicted that!

Are you going to answer the question?

 

[SilverBear]

I found the following article on how the children of gay parents turn out interesting, and just as expected.

Children of homosexuals more apt to be homosexuals? A reply to Morrison and to Cameron based on an examination of multiple sources of data - PubMed

this initially confused me as it was in response to a "study" by Paul Cameron published in this same journal in 2006. No legitimate scientific journal would touch anything written by Cameron. The man is the poster child for fake research. He was kicked out of the APA in the 80's when it was found he had just made up the survey responses for a study he conducted. The Journal of Biosocial Science was at one time a vanity press publication. They would publish your grandmother's banana bread recipe and call it a scientific study so long as you had a functioning credit card. the journal was bought by Cambridge Press who has since turned it into an actual peer reviewed journal. So please take the findings of this study with a very large grain of salt.

 

[Nithavela]

I hope this will help many children find loving homes.

 

[Kenny'sID]

this initially confused me as it was in response to a "study" by Paul Cameron published in this same journal in 2006. No legitimate scientific journal would touch anything written by Cameron. The man is the poster child for fake research. He was kicked out of the APA in the 80's when it was found he had just made up the survey responses for a study he conducted. The Journal of Biosocial Science was at one time a vanity press publication. They would publish your grandmother's banana bread recipe and call it a scientific study so long as you had a functioning credit card. the journal was bought by Cambridge Press who has since turned it into an actual peer reviewed journal. So please take the findings of this study with a very large grain of salt.

Here ya go, another study.

Adult children of lesbian parents less likely to identify as straight, study finds

 

[MIDutch]

Here ya go, another study.

Adult children of lesbian parents less likely to identify as straight, study finds

Or, alternative title: Adult children of lesbian parents less likely to feel pressured to identify as straight when they're actually homosexual.

I have family members and friends who are lesbian couples. None of their children are homosexual nor do they identify as such. I have lots of friends and family members who are straight who have homosexual children. The sexual orientation of the parents obviously plays very little into how the children identify. I imagine EVERYONE has similar experience.

 

[bèlla]

Christians are in no position to point fingers given the rampant addiction to inappropriate contentography in the pulpit and congregation. Not to mention the plethora of sex scandals we’ve endured.

~bella