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A foster care and adoption agency has threatened to end its decades-long partnership with the state over a standoff about religious exemptions. (Stock photograph via Elements Envato)
A foster agency with ties to the Baptist in Kentucky has said it will punish children if it’s not allowed to freely discriminate queer couples.
Sunrise Children’s Services has refused to sign a contract with the state of Kentucky unless it is given an exemption on religious grounds to bar queer couples from adopting.
The agency, one of the largest and oldest in the state, must renew its contract with the Kentucky State Cabinet for Health and Family Services each year to secure vital funding to support its users.
It is alarmingly common for the Daily News to report on criminal cases involving adults using social media in efforts to engage in inappropriate behavior with kids, and these local cases represent a tiny fraction of such instances nationwide. For all of the internetâs positive contributions to modern life, it does have an undeniable dark side, particularly in its misuse by those who seek to harm children.
Thatâs why we are thankful that Kentucky leaders have voiced opposition to Facebookâs apparent plans to create a version of Instagram â a popular, photo- and video-based social media network â that would ostensibly be reserved for children ages 13 and younger. Facebook, which owns Instagram, has argued that a children-specific network is safer than the practice of kids lying about their age in order to access apps and websites that lack adult oversight. We suppose thereâs a case to be made for that idea, although we are troubled by the concept of estab
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