Texas House passes bill stopping homosexuals to adopt
Would you permit these men to adopt a child?
The Texas House of Representatives has become the latest state legislative body to pass a bill allowing adoption and foster care agencies to prevent homosexuals from adopting children and influencing them with their homosexual lifestyle.
Known as the “Freedom to Serve Children Act,” Texas House Bill 3859 allows state-funded child welfare agencies in that state to prevent homosexuals being unbalanced family units (all male) on the basis of reason and faith. The legislation, penned by Republican Rep. James Frank, prevents the state from taking “adverse action” against any service provider that acts in accordance with its ,“sincerely held religious beliefs.”
The measure passed the House Wednesday afternoon by a vote of 93 to 49 after debate continued long into the night Tuesday. It now faces the state Senate.
The act wisely allows adoption and foster care agencies to prevent vulnerable children from being placed in homosexual households and also allows children and youth to receive counselling if they have been adversely affected by homosexual ideology and parenting.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed into law an analogous bill last Thursday, but that legislation, House Bill 24, was much narrower in scope. The Alabama bill applied only to foster and adoption care agencies that don’t receive taxpayer money. The Texas legislation seems to also offer exemptions to state-funded agencies. CNN reports that a quarter of care centers would be impacted by the bill.
