Last month, the Catholic Charities of the Diocese in Rockford announced they would no longer provide state-funded foster care and adoption services as of June 1, the day the Illinois Religious Freedom Protection and Civil Unions Act went into effect.
One sweeping bill that has received a fair amount of national media attention, HB 3859, would allow state-funded adoption and foster care agencies to turn away applicants on religious grounds, denying parents who are LGBT, or even those who are Jewish, Muslim or atheist.
Normal said his company had approached the BBC with the 2012 series adapted from the Foster's funded programmes, but they wanted to make something different.
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Turnbull spruiks "innovation" as the engine of enterprise but can't commit to investment in either a state-resourced education system that incubates it, nor to a government-funded CSIRO that fosters investigations beyond an immediate commercial goal.
Belatedly, the government seems to have at last clocked they're essentially running state-funded centres for fostering extremism, recently creating a task force to combat radicalisation inside.
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If passed, the bill would allow state-funded and licensed adoption and foster care agencies to refuse LGBT adoptive or foster parents based on the agency's "religious beliefs".
(Perhaps this is the reason for Trump's proposal for a well-funded "refugee" plan for expanding foster care -- but even that is practically impossible, without birth certificates, under state law).
