Senate To Look At Religious Exemption For Faith-Based Adoption Agencies

Faith-based adoption agencies in Michigan which claim a religious exemption would be allowed to decline services to certain potential adoptive parents without risk of losing taxpayer funding, under bills before a senate committee Wednesday.

The Republican-sponsored bills were approve in the Michigan House on a 65-44 vote last month.

Supporters say faith-based adoption agencies should not be required to enter in any arrangement that would violate their beliefs.

But critics say the bills amount to being a license to discriminate against gays, unmarried couples or others.