Basically, Texas adoption agencies can now deny any applicants for any specious reason, "saving" any attractive kids for their friends and fellow travelers - or for a better price - and call it a religious reason, despite any effort to address the well-being of the child.
They can collect kids and shuffle them off to the religiously-based child adoption mills that will adopt kids for the tax deductions, subsidies, and to work around the house or "family businesses/farms" until they're old enough to be disposed of (kicked out of the house when they're no longer tax deductible). This is preferable to risking CPS services checking up on the increasing number of foster families that collect kids without parental protection for their own monetary/tax deduction/government services purposes.
I've known of at least four couples that used foster and adopted children to subsidize their lifestyle over the years; they all claimed to be good, "churchgoing" folk - who always seemed to have problems with those kids that "forced" the parents/guardians to abandon them - once there was no more financial benefit to keeping them.
Two of those couples were busted by the secular law and ended up in jail - on tax purposes, but the other two left at least six damaged young adults that I know of abandoned to the streets once those "children" became inconvenient without any repercussion either legal or within their own church.
So forgive me if I've got a huge problem with state-funded adoption or placement agencies that are allowed to discriminate on "religious" grounds, rather than on reality-based reasons (such as drug abuse, ability to maintain a stable and involved household, or prior violence based criminal records)
Haele
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