New York gives Christian group 'ultimatum': change gay adoption policy
   New York gives Christian group 'ultimatum': change gay adoption policy
New York gives Christian group 'ultimatum': change gay adoption policy or end
   The state of New York has given a Syracuse-based Christian adoption
   agency an ultimatum to either change their adoption policy forbidding
   adoption services, a new lawsuit details.
   the ground that the nonprofit could be forced to phase out its adoption
   adoption or post-abortion needs in the Syracuse area and throughout the
   and even took note of the “number of strengths” of New Hope’s adoption
   policy on gay adoption “discriminatory and impermissible.”
   present policy and continue the existing adoption program’ or ‘fail to
   adoption program and [New Hope] will be required to submit a close-out
   plan for the adoption program,’” the lawsuit explains.
   its religion by closing its adoption ministry.”
   “New York State has never changed its adoption laws to make it
   mandatory for adoption providers to place children with couples other
   Family Services have purported to do so through their adoption,
   in a statement that adoption services exist only to help children not
   adoption providers becomes the status quo.”
   New York to protect the adoption agency from any government-imposed
   other adoption providers who hold different convictions. But
   eliminating New Hope as a faith-based adoption provider means fewer
   New Hope’s legal battle comes as adoption agencies in various parts of
   adoption and foster services in August over conflicts with state and
   because of their gay adoption policies.
   In the past several years, faith-based adoption and foster care
   have had to halt their adoption services in the last decade-plus
   Johnson, president of the nonpartisan National Council for Adoption,
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