State Must Honor Adoption, Foster Care Contracts with Catholic Charities (For Now)

Catholic Charities in Illinois won a court battle yesterday when a Sangamon County judge granted a temporary ruling allowing them to take on new foster care cases.

Last week the state Department of Children and Family Services, with Gov. Quinn's support, informed Catholic Charities that they would no longer be allowed to offer adoption and foster care services over their insistence to not work with unmarried and same-sex couples, a violation of the Illinois Religious Freedom Protection and Civil Union Law. Catholic Charities, in the motion filed in court, contend that the actions by DCFS is a violation of their own freedom of religion and that the actions by DCFS blindsided them.

Catholic Charities and an assistant attorney general presented Judge John Schmidt with an agreement to let the group keep accepting new cases, pending a mid-August hearing on whether Catholic Charities will be able to continue offering foster services over the long term.

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By Chuck Sudo in News on July 19, 2011 8:25 AM

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Joseph

So we're letting some downstate judge decide that the state still has to keep feeding children to a homophobic organization? What the hell?

Kaonashi

Sooo, they want to continue to receive state funding while discriminating against unmarried and same-sex couples. No surprises there.

Why should this organization be allowed to accept new cases from DCFS? It's obvious that the welfare of children is the last thing they care about.