Alabama Is About to Make It Legal for Adoption Agencies to Discriminate Against LGBTQ People
Alabama lawmakers passed a controversial measure on Tuesday night that would allow private adoption and child placement agencies to discriminate against LGBTQ parents for reasons of “religious freedom.”
Officially known as HB24, the bill:
“prohibit[s] the state from discriminating against or refusing to license a provider of child placing services licensed by the state on the basis that the provider declines to provide a child placing service or carry out an activity that conflicts with the religious beliefs of the provider.”
The measure sailed through the Alabama House by an 87-0 vote, AL.com reported. Eighteen Democrats joined 69 Republicans in passing the bill. The state Senate passed its version of the bill last week.