One of the nation's largest Christian adoption agencies is now opening it services to gay couples.
According to the Daily Wire, the adoption agency Bethany Christian Services, America’s largest protestant adoption and foster care agency, announced that their business is open to LGBTQ parents.
President and Chief Executive Chris Palusky emailed 1,500 staff members this week to let them know that “We will now offer services with the love and compassion of Jesus to the many types of families who exist in our world today."
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Bethany Christian Services has been providing adoptions and foster care for 77 years. The New York Times reported that the organization has “facilitated 3,406 foster placements and 1,123 adoptions in 2019, and has offices in 32 states," and that "The organization also works in refugee placement, and offers other services related to child and family welfare.”
Board member Susan Jordan acknowledged that some people would be upset by their decision.
“We recognize there are people who will not be happy. We may lose some donors," she said. "But the message we’re trying to give is inviting people alongside of us. Serving children should not be controversial.”