Religious-based adoption agencies that contract with the state of Michigan will be allowed to refuse to place children in LGBTQ homes under a preliminary injunction. - NBCOUT
Michigan couple April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse pose with their children Rylee, Ryanne, Nolan and Jacob in their home in Hazel Park, Michigan April 19, 2015.LANSING, Mich. — Religious-based adoption agencies that contract with the state of Michigan will be allowed to refuse to place children in LGBTQ homes under a preliminary injunction issued by a federal judge Thursday.
District Judge Robert Jonker in Grand Rapids blocked Democratic state Attorney General Dana Nessel, Michigan's first openly gay statewide officeholder, from barring the faith-based agencies from excluding LGBTQ couples from services.Paul Sancya / AP file He said her action conflicted with state law, existing contracts and established practice. Nessel had, through a legal settlement between same-sex couples and the state Department of Health and Human Services, reversed the state's stance earlier this year.
Michigan, like most states, contracts with private agencies to place children from troubled homes with new families. Jonker, in issuing a preliminary injunction, said Lansing-based St. Vincent Catholic Charities' longstanding practice of adhering to its religious beliefs and referring same-sex and unmarried couples to other agencies is not
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