Post by Logan on Feb 18, 2016 5:42:40 GMT -6
Faith-based adoption bill promotes anti-LGBT discrimination, opponents say
Marvin Binnick bounced from foster home to foster home for eight years, nearly one third of his life.
He spent time in abusive homes, he said — including at least one arranged by a Christian-based child placement agency — before connecting with his final family at age 16.
"They stuck with me," he said. "They didn't treat me poorly."
His boyhood experience is one reason he opposes a measure which he believes would allow adoption and foster care agencies to discriminate against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people who want to provide homes for children, Binnick told members of a legislative committee Wednesday.
The bill (LB975), sponsored by state Sen. Mark Kolterman of Seward, would prohibit state government from stripping funding or taking other adverse action against faith-based child placement agencies which decline to work with certain families based on the agencies' religious beliefs.
Read more: journalstar.com/legislature/faith-based-adoption-bill-promotes-anti-lgbt-discrimination-opponents-say/article_acebdd11-03a5-5e99-b494-36f88f2e7774.html
Marvin Binnick bounced from foster home to foster home for eight years, nearly one third of his life.
He spent time in abusive homes, he said — including at least one arranged by a Christian-based child placement agency — before connecting with his final family at age 16.
"They stuck with me," he said. "They didn't treat me poorly."
His boyhood experience is one reason he opposes a measure which he believes would allow adoption and foster care agencies to discriminate against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people who want to provide homes for children, Binnick told members of a legislative committee Wednesday.
The bill (LB975), sponsored by state Sen. Mark Kolterman of Seward, would prohibit state government from stripping funding or taking other adverse action against faith-based child placement agencies which decline to work with certain families based on the agencies' religious beliefs.
Read more: journalstar.com/legislature/faith-based-adoption-bill-promotes-anti-lgbt-discrimination-opponents-say/article_acebdd11-03a5-5e99-b494-36f88f2e7774.html