The Trump admin. argues adoption agencies should be able to reject same-sex couples, due to religious beliefs, a brief to the US Supreme court says. - NBCOUT
on behalf of a funeral home accused of firing an employee, Aimee Stephens, when she came out as transgender. The high court’s ruling in that case could come down any time.to Miracle Hill Ministries in South Carolina, allowing it to deny services to same-sex or non-Christian couples and continue as a state-supported foster care agency.in the foster care and adoption process, and others are considering similar measures.
LGBTQ advocates say these laws and policies only worsen the problem of a lack of available foster families. There were about 443,000 children in foster care across the United States in 2017, according to a Department of Health and Human Services report published that year. Each year, around 50,000 children are adopted through the child welfare system, but about 20,000 others “age out” before being placed with an adoptive family, the department reports.
The Supreme Court will hear Fulton v. City of Philadelphia during its next term, which begins in October.
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