HOMOSEXUAL CIVIL UNIONS MANIPULATE CATHOLIC ADOPTION AGENCY
Image via Wikipedia BELLEVILLE, Illinois, – A Catholic agency in Illinois severed ties with its diocese last week in order to comply with a state law forcing adoption agencies to place children with homosexual couples. The head of the former Diocese of Belleville child welfare agency, now called Christian Social Services of South Illinois , told LifeSiteNews they had “no choice” but to abide by the law after exhausting their legal options. Gary Huelsmann, executive director of the organization once known as Catholic Social Services of South Illinois, said the decision “boiled down to the Catholic Church needing to stay true to its core beliefs and the agency needing to care for all of these abused, neglected children.” “In order to be able to continue to do that with state funding we had to disassociate ourselves from the Church. So it’s as simple as that,” he told LifeSiteNews. However, the agency’s decision to sever with the church has its prominent critics. In a column last Fr