Bethany Christian Will Allow LGBT Parents to Foster and Adopt
The largest Christian adoption agency is now calling on âChristians with diverse beliefsâ as it aims to serve more children under a new inclusion policy.
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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.”
Christopher Z. Mooney is the director of the University of Illinois’s Institute of Government and Public Affairs and the W. Russell Arrington Professor of