Evangelical Adoption Agency To Serve LGBT Parents

The New York Times reports:

One of the country’s largest adoption and foster care agencies, Bethany Christian Services, announced Monday that it will begin providing services to L.G.B.T.Q. parents nationwide effective immediately, a major inflection point in the fraught battle over many faith-based agencies’ longstanding opposition to working with same-sex couples.

The Michigan-based evangelical organization announced the change in an email to approximately 1,500 staff members signed by Chris Palusky, the organization’s president and chief executive.

“We will now offer services with the love and compassion of Jesus to the many types of families who exist in our world today,” Mr. Palusky wrote. “We’re taking an ‘all hands on deck’ approach where all are welcome.”

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Scoop: Bethany Christian Services, one of the largest adoption and foster agencies in the country, will begin working with LGBTQ families nationwide effective immediately. https://t.co/uFt95fOOkB

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