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Illinois Investigates Whether Religious Foster Care Agencies Violate the Civil Union Act

By Nottage and Ward on March 18, 2011

According to The Chicago Tribune, state officials are now looking into whether religious agencies that are given public funding to give foster care parents licenses are violating anti-discrimination laws if they don’t allow parents that are openly gay to apply for a license. In Illinois, any adult who adopts or becomes a foster care provider for a child must attain a foster care license.

The Lutheran Child and Family Services, the Evangelical Child and Family Agency, and the Catholic Charities are under fire. If they are found to be in violation, they will be required to give openly gay foster parents licenses or face losing millions of dollars from the State. This would also disrupt over 3,000 foster children under their supervision. The policies of the Lutheran Child and Family Services prohibit the “developing or licensing foster care families who identify themselves as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or questioning,” as do the other agencies.

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