“...stating the groups are not required by the state to perform adoption services.”
I think the judge has American law confused with French Code Civil.
In America, that which is not expressly illegal, is legal. In France, that which is not expressly authorized by the government, is illegal.
This small distinction is why America has much more freedom than France. And why America has a much more vital entrepreneurial spirit than France. At least until the government so buries the people under ponderous and inhibiting regulation that we can no longer function.
Like the French.
the only ones that suffer are the poor kids
Does anyone know when this clown is up for a retention vote?
This looks for all the world like our future, whether one is Catholic (as I and mine are), or one who follow Our Lord, treading a different path. With items like this looming, I pray for all who follow a Christian faith, whether Catholic or not.
On this story, all the comments on it are slamming Catholics for holding to their beliefs and not embracing Gays.
I didn’t know there were that many stupid ignorant people that don’t have a clue what a religious belief means.
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The state has the right to say that certain activities are “lawful” (someone WANTING to do it has the right to do it) - such as “gay” couples being allowed to adopt.
The state has no right to say that YOU (or anyone else) MUST participate in those activities.
When the state works with the citizens’ freely formed organizations that are participating in a state funded or subsidized activity - like adoptions in general - it has no right to convert a “lawful” (permitted) activity (”gay” adoptions) into a MANDATORY activity that must be supplied by all.
All citizens, and their organizations, cannot be required to do something that “can” be done, converting “can” into “must” be done.
State policy must be “open” to all its citizens, those that want to participate in “gay” adoptions, as well as those that don’t.
In as much as state law does not deny the right to “gays” to adopt, those that want to do that are not denied the “right” to do it simply because they have to do so with organizations that CHOSE TO facilitate it. Their (”gays”) “freedom” and their “rights” are not provided at the expense of the “freedom” and “rights” of others.