Catholic adoption agencies given only 45 days to transfer all children after gay adoption dust-up
CHICAGO, October 20, 2011 – Lawyers for Catholic Charities affiliates in three dioceses in Illinois are protesting in court after the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) said it would transfer over 1,000 children from the church-run agencies by only a fraction of the original timeline. The revelation comes at the same time as news broke that the Illinois child-welfare agency, which is taking over the children’s cases after the state pas Image via Wikipedia sed its homosexual civil unions bill, has a history of subversively administering psychotropic drugs to children without permission. “Why is the DCFS, particularly in light of the scandal that it is handling now, dealing with [Catholic Charities’] workload in a hasty manner,” asked attorney Peter Breen of the Thomas More Society , who is representing Catholic Charities, in an interview with LifeSiteNews. Breen pointed out that the state agency has only imposed the accelerated time frame on the three affil