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>Tennessee-based adoption agency
>refuses to help couple because
>they're Jewish
>Jan 19
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>A Knoxville couple is suing the
>Tennessee Department of Children's
>Services, saying a state-sponsored
>Christian-based adoption agency
>refused to help them because they
>are Jewish.
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>It is the state's first lawsuit to
>challenge a new law that allows
>religious adoption agencies to deny
>service to families whose religious
>or moral beliefs aren't in sync with
>the provider's, the family's attorney
>told Knox News on Wednesday.
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>The adoption agency, the Holston
>United Methodist Home for Children
>based in Greeneville, Tennessee,
>denied Elizabeth and Gabriel Rutan-
>Ram from acquiring Tennessee-mandated
>foster-parent training and a home-
>study certification as they attempted
>to adopt a child from Florida last
>year, the Rutan-Rams say.
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>In December, the Greenville-based
>Holston sued the Biden administration
>for regulations that prohibit
>discrimination in programs funded by
>U.S. Health and Human Services grants
>"on the basis of religion, sex, sexual
>orientation, gender identity and
>same-sex marriage status," saying it
>violates its First Amendment rights.
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>https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/politics/2022/01/20/holston-united-m
>ethodist-home-for-children-adoption-tennessee-refused-family-jewish/6582
>864001/
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