[grania]

Another area for the church to offer private adoptions and detach from government money

It's the same with education and medical services. The Church is on a slippery slope when it accepts government money. That in itself breaks the separation of Church and State. Government money comes with strings attached, and I can't disagree with the courts when they side with the gov in these cases.

[Mrs. Don-o]

The problem is, kids from foster care are the really neediest ones, first because they usually are older-than-infant and in sibling groups which nobody wants to break up, and second because they come from backgrounds of abuse, deprivation, instability, neglect, etc. They have extraordinary emotional needs (often physical/medical needs as well), and can be disruptive and even dangerous, and hard to foster.

It's impossible to get a foster kid except through the state system.

Second, when it comes to permanent adoption, white undamaged newborns are instant adoptees, no problems whatsoever, multitudes of couples are on the waiting list to adopt them. The hard kids to place for permanent adoption are, as above, kids from the foster system.

Once again, you cannot get kids via the foster system except through the state.

So it's not just a matter of getting government funding.

It's a matter of getting government-controlled kids.

BTW, I strongly agree with you about the entangling problems of contracts given by government agencies to private agencies. But since the govt. has taken over so much of what used to be church "Works of Mercy," the whole shebang is now under the control of Holy Mother the State.

[ravenwolf]

It’s the same with education and medical services. The Church is on a slippery slope when it accepts government money.

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I agree, and money is what religion is all about.

[Phil DiBasquette]

And yet there is not and has never been the separation of Church
and State intended in the Constitution, only the establishment of
a State religion (the English king was the head of the C of E)