One of the nation’s largest religious adoption and foster care agencies announced this week that it will now allow children to be placed in LGBTQ+ households.
Bethany Christian Services, which is based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, sent an email to staff on Monday informing them of the agency’s new policy of working with same-sex prospective parents in the 32 states and seven countries in which it operates. According to the
The internal letter doesn’t specifically mention same-sex parents. Instead Bethany’s president and chief executive, Chris Palusky, said the organization “will now offer services with the love and compassion of Jesus to the many types of families who exist in our world today.”