Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell.
Posted on 03/12/2012 9:18:16 PM PDT by massmike
A Virginia bill set to become law will protect the right of faith-based adoption agencies in the state to limit adoption placements to heterosexual couples.
The bill, which cleared the Virginia Senate last Friday by a vote of 22-18, allows private adoption agencies to refuse to participate in adoptions that “violate the agency’s written religious or moral convictions or policies.” It also protects the agencies from being denied government licensure, funds, or contracts based on that refusal.
An identical bill had passed the state’s House of Delegates early last month, by a vote of 71-to-28. All House Republicans and three Democrats supported the measure.
Now that the bill has been approved by both chambers, it will head to desk of Republican Governor Bob McDonnell, who is expected to sign the legislation.
Roman Catholic Church officials have supported the move because of previous threats to the state’s faith-based adoption agencies posed by anti-discrimination provisions added under the administration of Democratic Governor Timothy Kaine. Kaine added same-sex behavior to Virginia’s anti-discrimination laws by executive order in 2009. He is currently running for the state’s U.S. Senate seat.
State Senator Adam Ebbin, an openly gay Democrat, called the bill “an all-out effort to stop LGBT people from adopting children,” according to the news service.
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Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell.
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Excellent news. May many other states with R majorities follow suit! Protect those children!!!
And this bill is also protecting freedom of religion.
I do wish all federal monies that are not Constitutionally authorized would stop, though. Then people would have more money to donate to charities so it would be a win win.
AGREED!!! That is SO true.
Now, that's just a pile of poo.
This bill doesn't stop other adoption agencies from working with LGBT people. Nor does it stop LGBT people from setting up their own LGBT-oriented adoption services, for that matter.
Not that I think those are good things; that's a different argument. But the point is that this bill does not deny anyone anything!!
Actually I didn’t state it strongly enough. Unless the fedgov stops all actions/agencies etc that are not Constitutionally mandated, we will continue to slide into the abyss of communism.
It’ll be challanged in court, of course, and appealed as far as is deemed necessary to have it voided.
As a nation, we have completely lost sight of the intent and purpose of the Constitution, with regard to the definition of the federal government.
The Fed gov was intended a light-weight entity, binding together disparate states in a union that provided certain defined, limited functions which were better done as a whole rather than individually. Per the Ninth and Tenth Amendments, all else was left to the States and to the People.
The fed gov was never intended to become the heavy-weight overlord, subsuming all powers unto itself, the grand "provider" and at the same time grand arbiter of which shall and shall not be permissible for citizens.
The Founders certainly had their differences of opinion, and sharp disagreements. But all of them, every one, would weep angry tears if they saw what our once Great Nation has become, in the evil hands of the statists, who see the power of the fed gov as the engine that can power their own agendas.
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