'SODOMITE ADOPTION RIGHTS' IN CONGRESS
By Harmony Grant Daws and Rev. Ted Pike
15 Mar 10
A new bill has been introduced into Congress, attractively named
the “Every Child Deserves a Family Act.” The goal of HR
3827 is “to prohibit discrimination in adoption or foster care
placements based on the sexual orientation, gender identification,
or marital status of any prospective adoptive or foster parent.”
The bill reports that “one-third of child welfare agencies
in the United States currently reject gay, lesbian, and bisexual applicants,
citing a conflict with the religious beliefs associated with the agency,
State law prohibiting placement with gay, lesbian, or bisexual parents,
or a policy of placing children with married-heterosexual only couples.” It
says as many as two million homosexuals may be interested in adopting
children and may be rejected because of their orientation. The bill
will remove federal funding from any placement agency that “discriminates” on
the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity of marital status.
This means Christian adoption agencies will be unable to operate
according to their founders’ consciences. It means closure of
Catholic or Christian agencies which refuse to violate their moral
principles of placing children with heterosexual or nuclear families
only. Ultimately, this will mean fewer children adopted! After a similar
law was passed in Britain, multiple adoption agencies closed. The Catholic
Children’s Rescue Service was the first to do so. Rather than
allowing the free market to potentially create homosexual-friendly
adoption agencies (should there really be such demand), this law strong-arms
benevolent religious organizations into violating their own principles
in favor of a political agenda.
This bill would not only limit freedom of religion for adoption agencies
but also for birth parents. A teen mother won’t be able to find
agencies which screen for nuclear, Christian families if those are
the qualities she wants for her unborn child.
Inevitably, such agenda-driven legislation is used as a force of
discrimination itself. In Britain, pro-homosexual adoption laws were
passed and are now used against traditional, religious people seeking
to rescue children! In 2008, Daily
Mail reported a story of a Christian couple told, “You
can’t foster if you think it’s wrong to be gay.” Eunice
and Owen Johns, a black couple who have cared for almost 20 children
and raised four of their own, would not submit to a new hate law requiring
them to condone homosexuality in order to continue rescuing needy kids.
Eunice explains that she was told she would have to tell foster children
that it’s okay to be homosexual.
“But I couldn’t do that because my Christian beliefs
won’t let me,” she says, “Morally I couldn’t
do that, spiritually I couldn’t do that.” Her husband says, “I
would love any child, black or white, gay or straight. But I cannot
understand why sexuality is an issue when we are talking about boys
and girls under the age of ten.” Because of their traditional
values, the Johns were denied the opportunity to continue saving needy
kids.
In 2007, a British woman named Sonia Maples wrote for the UK Telegraph about being
denied adoption because of the religious “idealism” she
shares with her husband. Maples says their home is not “overtly
religious” and they have homosexual friends, but this wasn’t
enough to make up for their belief that a nuclear family is best
for children.
“Long before the current row over whether church-based adoption
agencies should be allowed to set their own rules about accepting homosexual
couples on to their books, my husband and I felt the cold breath of
discrimination,” says Maples. “It wasn't because of our
sexual orientation…we were found wanting because we were Christians
and because we hold strong views about the importance of children having
both a father and a mother.”
Maples and her husband were investigated for 18 months by social workers
full of questions about their religious convictions. They were then
refused by the adoption panel because of their religious objection
to homosexuality. Maples said, “We later received a letter saying
that we had been turned down as adoptive parents, that we were not
suitable for any of the children they had to place and that we would
have to reconsider our views on homosexuality…We appealed, but
in vain. We have since spoken to a fostering agency, which told us
that only one or two heterosexual couples get approved by them.”
This anti-heterosexual agenda affects even birth parents who want
to keep their own children. In Vermont, ex-lesbian Lisa
Miller is currently running from the law with her seven-year-old
biological daughter Isabella because custody has been awarded to her
previous same-sex partner, who is not legally or biologically related
to the child! Miller has become an evangelical Christian and her advocates
say this is clearly a case of hard-line “progressives” pushing
for pro-homosexual custody rights. Talk show host Wiley Drake, who
is familiar with the case, said that after the first court ordered
weekend visitation of six-year-old Isabella to her lesbian “mother,” the
child returned home to her real mother proudly fondling herself. She
related matter-of-factly that she and the lesbian had taken a bath
together and watched pornographic movies. She had even been taught
how to urinate standing up. Adoptive rights for homosexuals? Such corruption
of children by aggressive sodomites will only be expanded to millions
of society’s youngest, most vulnerable members if this bill becomes
law.
End of Normal Adoptions in America
In the US, the largest adoption agency has already had to pull out
of multiple states because of “anti-discrimination” lawsuits.
In 2003, Adoption.com
was sued by two homosexual men, residents of California, who claim
they faced illegal discrimination because the agency won’t serve
homosexual couples. The homosexuals won the lawsuit and the agency
no longer serves adoptive parents in California. The adoption agency
argued it was governed by Arizona law and wasn’t required to
violate its own conscience by advertising homosexual couples. But if
HR 3827 becomes federal, all agencies will have to submit or close
their doors.
To prevent this, one state was proactive. North Dakota, in 2008, passed
the “Adoption Agency Freedom to Serve” Act which protects
the right of adoption agencies to refuse adoptions that violate their
moral or religious beliefs. When the bill was introduced there were
six agencies providing licensed services, four of them affiliated with
religious organizations. But if HR 3827 passes, this state law will
be overturned and North Dakota’s citizens will lose the freedom
they have chosen.
Protest to your House member now! Call 1-877-851-6437 toll
free 202-225-3121 toll. Also call the crucial members of the House
Ways and Means Committee (especially Republicans) demanding they stop
the “Every Child Deserves a Family Act.” Names are available
HERE
at www.truthtellers.org.
Tell House members, “Please do not vote for the ‘Every
Child Deserves a Family Act,’ HR 3827. It would force all US
adoption agencies to place children with homosexual couples. Many
homosexuals prey on children. And this bill would force religious
adoption agencies to close. I and my friends will vote out any House
member who supports this outrageous legislation.”
National Prayer Network, P.O. Box 828, Clackamas,
OR 97015
