Republican Gov. Rick Snyder signed a law in 2015 that says child-placement agencies aren't required to provide services that conflict with their beliefs. It was signed, however, before the U.S. Supreme Court legalized gay marriage.
The plaintiffs in the ACLU lawsuit include Dana and Kristy Dumont, who said they were turned down by two faith-based agencies in the Lansing area.
When Dana and Kristy contacted a state-contracted agency to start the adoption process, they were told by an agency representative that “the agency does not work with same-sex couples,” according to an ACLU statement. The couple made another attempt with a different agency and got the same response.
“These are not just private institutions operating under private funds under their own private rules. These are institutions that have been given a government contract [which uses] our public tax dollars to support this discrimination,” she added. “The fact that I’m being asked to fund, through my own tax dollars, my own discrimination is outrageous.”
In 2015, when the law was signed, 25 percent of Michigan's adoption and foster care agencies were faith-based. If they decline to work with same-sex couples, they're required to give applicants a list of other providers.
If I may be refused due to being a single man with no proven experience raising children, you should be refused for being a homosexual with no proven experience raising children.
I'm so sorry that you feel equality isn't fair.
James Cox
Why should taxpayers have to fund their own discrimination?
Dylan Martin
could you imagine how fucking pissed you would be once you grow up and realize the adoption agency was forced to hand you over to a couple faggots? that's how you make a unabomber type person
Owen Moore
What discrimination? Fucking homosexuals can't fucking argue, don't just use words and then completely fail to justify it or establish common grounds, that might work amongst your vapid groups but it doesn't fly here.
Aaron Williams
I'd argue that your situation isn't equal either, but keep being a victim of the gays if you'd like. A couple with income and flexibility to provide an actual home life is still going to win out over a single guy, but either situation is preferable to foster barracks.
Owen Lee
A lesbian couple went to two state-funded state-licensed adoption agencies and were rejected by both.
Noah Torres
Money isn't the issue here, plenty of single white guys are rich. The issue here is experience and shut the fuck up this isn't discrimination because it's difficult to raise a child so you don't get someone else's child unless you prove you can raise your own first.
This is not discrimination.
Yes, lesbians are notoriously bad with children, either physically abusing them or sexually abusing them. There are actually a myriad of stories here. Likewise, single men are also as distrusted with children since people can't stop imagining white men sexually abusing children. There's actually not much evidence to prove this.
Farr, R. H. (2017). Does parental sexual orientation matter? A longitudinal follow-up of adoptive families with school-age children. Developmental Psychology, 53(2), 252-264. dx.doi.org/10.1037/dev0000228
