US state to pass anti-LGBT adoption laws

The US state of Georgia has passed a bill that could allow child welfare organisations to refuse placement of children with LGBT+ couples. The bill, SB-375, allows these organisations to refuse placements based on religious beliefs. Dubbed the “Keep Faith in Adoption and Foster Care Act”, it is now heading to the Georgia House of Representatives where it awaits consideration.

Many LGBT+ activists have come forward against this bill, including State Senator Nan Orrock who said in a statement: “This proposition that we should encourage agencies and change our law and protect agencies that are going to deny loving families the opportunity to adopt is backwards on its face. You want more families coming forward to adopt children and reduce the load of children stuck in the foster system? The way that you do that is not to bar LGBT couples from adopting.”

Lucas Acosta, the LGBTQ Media Director for the DNC, points out that these organisations cannot afford to discriminate against potential parents, there are about half a million children in foster care across the United States with more than 14,000 in Georgia alone. “Plain and simple, Georgia’s Republican lawmakers are discriminating against LGBTQ parents,” Acosta says. “Rather than focusing on empowering families or uniting children with loving parents, Georgia Republicans want to strip qualified potential parents of their ability to provide for a child in need.

“The Georgia legislature should be focusing on how it can attract more qualified and loving parents to the system—not rejecting potential homes based on the gender identity or sexual orientation of the parents.”

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