LGBT advocates express opposition to Kansas adoption bill

 

April 27, 2018



TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Gay rights advocates from across the country arrived at the Kansas Capitol on Thursday to oppose an adoption bill that they see as a civil rights setback.

The bill, called the Adoption Protection Act, would prevent the state from withholding grants or contracts to faith-based agencies that refuse to place children into homes that violate their religious beliefs. It would also grant further protections from lawsuits brought against them for such actions.

Critics of the bill argued that it will allow religious agencies to freely discriminate against same-sex Kansas resid...



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