By Gudrun Schultz
BOSTON, Massachusetts, April 18, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – State laws requiring Catholic adoption agencies to give equal consideration to homosexuals as adoptive parents will not be enforced, at least for the time being.
The Department of Early Education, which regulates adoption agencies, said the agency wouldn’t take action against Catholic adoption organizations in Worcester, Fall River and Springfield who are refusing to consider homosexuals on religious grounds. The DEE said they would wait to see if legislation proposed by Gov. Mitt Romney exempting Catholic agencies would be accepted, reported the Associated Press.
Gov. Romney proposed the bill after Catholic Charities of Boston declared last month it would no longer be placing any children for adoption because state laws requiring that gays be considered were in conflict with church teaching that homosexual activity is “gravely immoral.”
Church leaders had asked the state for an exemption for Catholic agencies at the time, but Gov. Romney said he didn’t have the authority to grant a unilateral exemption.
See previous LifeSiteNews coverage:
Homosexual Adoption Ends 100 Years of Adoption Services by Boston Catholic Charities
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/mar/06031003.html
Massachusetts Tells Catholic Church it Must Permit Homosexual Adoption
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/feb/06022010.html