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Judge Rules In Favor of Michigan Catholic Charities That Discriminates Against LGBTQ Clients

October 7, 2019/2 Comments/in Marriage & Family, Politics & Human Rights, Schools & Youth, Uncategorized /by Catherine Buck

Michigan adoption agencies receiving government funding are no longer required to provide equal support to LGBTQ families, a federal judge ruled in a preliminary injunction last week for a case that involves a Catholic social service agency Read More

Catholic Agency Appeals to U.S. Supreme Court for Right to Refuse Services to LGBTQ Clients

July 24, 2019/4 Comments/in Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Politics & Human Rights, Religious Liberty, Schools & Youth, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

A Catholic social services agency has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that the agency may, as a religious organization, be exempted from non-discrimination laws and refuse services to LGBTQ clients under the First Amendment. Read More

Is U.S. Bishops’ Opposition to LGBTQ Equality Finally Backfiring on Them?

April 30, 2019/4 Comments/in Hierarchy, Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Politics & Human Rights, Religious Liberty, Schools & Youth, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

For nearly a decade, the U.S. bishops have used a campaign about upholding religious liberty to mask (thinly) their efforts to suppress equal rights for women and for LGBTQ people. But a social service agency's recent discrimination against a Catholic client raises the possibility that the bishops' advocacy may be backfiring on them. Read More

Michigan Will No Longer Fund Adoption Agencies that Ban LGBTQ Parents

April 12, 2019/2 Comments/in Marriage & Family, Politics & Human Rights /by Jonathan Nisly

The state of Michigan will require all adoption agencies receiving government funding to work with LGBTQ parents, as the result of a settlement between the American Civil Liberties Union and Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel (D). Read More

Protestors Outraged About Catholic Charities’ Decision to Discriminate Against LGBT Parents

November 6, 2018/2 Comments/in Hierarchy, Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Schools & Youth /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Protests have continued against a local Catholic Charities affiliate's decision to end adoption and foster care services so it would not have to provide services to LGBT clients. Read More

Catholic Charities Employees Protest Bishop’s Decision to End Adoption Services Over LGBT Non-Discrimination

September 7, 2018/5 Comments/in Hierarchy, Marriage & Family, Parish Life & Pastoral Care, Uncategorized /by Robert Shine, Managing Editor

Employees at Catholic Charities in Buffalo are protesting their local bishop's decision to end the agency's adoption and foster care services over anti-LGBT non-discrimination protections, a controversy erupting just as that same bishop faces increasing calls for resignation over his handling of abusive priests. Read More

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