‘Religious agencies seek gay adoption bill exemption’
Posted on August 8, 2010
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“The New South Wales Cabinet will consider exempting two adoption agencies from a plan to allow gay couples to adopt.
Independent MP Clover Moore introduced a bill in June that seeks to legalise adoption for gay couples.
But Anglicare has written to MPs urging them to vote against the bill and is threatening to withdraw its adoption services if the laws are introduced. … Its chief executive Peter Kell wrote to MPs outlining 11 reasons why the bill should be rejected, including that children need the opportunity to have both a mother and a father. …”
– Report from ABC News. (Photo of Peter Kell: Anglicare.)