A state House committee could vote Wednesday on bills to shield faith-based adoption agencies from having to serve LGBT couples if the US Supreme Court legalizes same-sex marriage.
We have more from The Michigan Public Radio Network’s Rick Pluta.
The bills would allow agencies that take money from the state for placing children with families to turn away same-sex couples. There would have to be a sincere religious objection and a good faith effort to refer the couples to another adoption service.
Backers say it will ensure faith-based adoption services can continue to do their work no matter how the Supreme Court rules. But civil rights groups say it will allow the agencies to continue to discriminate and make it harder to place children in permanent homes.