So it just happened today. Governor Rick Schneider just signed the bill a few hours ago, that specifically mentions adoption and foster care agencies to use their religion as a reason to deny services to people. Of course this hugely benefits only Christians because as far as I know there are not other big religiously founded orphanages in Michigan. I really do not think this is a good thing. not only does it hurt queer people, but more importantly it greatly reduces the amount of people those orphanages will have looking to adopt children. I fail to see how this is any benefit to the children.

[Sarcasm]You have to look at it from the right viewpoint. Look how many children it saves from being raised by heathens! [/sarcasm]

Quote from: Dee Marshall on June 11, 2015, 08:37:35 PM
[Sarcasm]You have to look at it from the right viewpoint. Look how many children it saves from being raised by heathens! [/sarcasm]

I have been thinking about how funny it would be if we started calling Christians heathens.

I wonder how quick the law would be changed if someone turned away Schneider on religious grounds

If I were a white supremacist, would I be able to deny service to black people and claim that it's on religious grounds?

Quote from: VeryGnawty on June 13, 2015, 09:20:43 AM
If I were a white supremacist, would I be able to deny service to black people and claim that it's on religious grounds?

I feel like in today's world that would be quite the stretch. There are other ways which black people are being oppressed. Like redlining, stereotyping, and poorly funded inner city schools, and racial profiling/police brutality.

At least I hope it would be a stretch...

Quote from: amber roskamp on June 13, 2015, 07:18:16 PM
I feel like in today's world that would be quite the stretch.

Why would it be a stretch?  Why are you against religious freedom?  I'm just trying to exercise my religious freedom to only serve the superior white race.

I can deny people service based on my religious beliefs, yes?  Then, I don't see why it should be a stretch.

We really need is fewer children with loving LGBT adoptive parents and more children living as wards of the often incompetent and underfunded state. There is just no way anything could wrong here. [/sarcasm] Does anyone find it ironic that the same people who oppose abortion and even contraception also want to make a smaller pool of potential adoptive parents by excluding LGBT persons.