The state House is poised to vote Wednesday that would allow faith-based adoption agencies in Michigan to turn away couples based on a religious objection to their lifestyle.
We have more from The Michigan Public Radio Network’s Rick Pluta.
House Republicans rejected a number of amendments in preliminary debate on the legislation. Republican state Representative Andrea LaFontaine says faith-based adoption agencies should not be forced to violate their beliefs.
“I just want to make sure that the current system that is functioning today providing a diversity of agencies continues into the future,” she says.
Democratic Representative Marcia Hovey-Wright says the bills would create a license to discriminate regardless of how the Supreme Court rules on same-sex marriage.
“They think that gay marriage is going become legal in Michigan and they don’t want to have to adopt to gay families,” she says.