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Post by M. Hawbaker on Mar 1, 2021 23:19:13 GMT
Bethany Christian Services, the largest Christian adoption agency in the United States, has changed a longstanding policy and will now place children with LGBT parents for foster care and adoption across its operations in 32 states. The news was announced today in a ministry-wide email and first reported in The New York Times. President Chris Pulasky told employees that “Bethany remains steadfast in its Christian faith,” and that the new practices will allow the organization to further its mission “to provide safe, loving, and stable homes to as many vulnerable children as possible.”
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Post by M. Hawbaker on Mar 1, 2021 23:19:34 GMT
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Post by barb43 on Mar 2, 2021 4:48:29 GMT
Heh, President Chris Pulasky, you reportedly told employees that “Bethany remains steadfast in its Christian faith” as y'all now mull over placing vulnerable children into LGBT home settings. How about you take the next 30 minutes and define what you, Chris Pulasky, think it means to "remain steadfast in your Christian faith." This change in mission focus is a compromise on your religious beliefs, imo. Bethany has been placing children for foster care in LGBTQ households since 2019. quoted material is from this 2019 article: www.christianitytoday.com/news/2019/april/bethany-christian-services-michigan-foster-lgbt-couples.htmlWhat bothers me, of course, is "what happens to these vulnerable children who definitely do need "safe, loving, and stable homes" if the Christian adoption and foster care services cannot act solely within their core Christian convictions? The April 2019 issue of Christianity Today contained this: Practicing Christians have been found to be twice as likely as the overall population to adopt and 50 percent more likely to foster, according to Barna Research. At least that gives me hope that the most children will - at this point in time - be placed in Christian homes. Russell Moore, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission and author of Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families and Churches said this in the March 2021 issue of Christianity Today, which this thread originally cited: |
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