Will new adoption rule ‘discriminate’ against LGBTQ people? The best way to prepare for the future
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 5 November 2019
⏱️ 6 minutes
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THE DAILY ARTICLE FOR NOVEMBER 5, 2019
A conflict is escalating over new rules permitting Christian organizations to arrange adoptions based on faith principles. Today's podcast discusses this controversy and invites us to prepare for the future by "planting trees we'll never sit under."
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| 0:14.7 | Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:19.9 | Today is the last day to request your copy of our 2019 Advent Devotional, |
| 0:25.2 | The Songs Tell the Story. |
| 0:26.9 | My wife Janet Dennison wrote about 25 well-known Christmas carols, |
| 0:31.0 | from traditional classics like, Oh Holy Night, |
| 0:33.8 | to modern favorites like Mary Did You Know? |
| 0:36.6 | Their stories are surprising, challenging, and encouraging. |
| 0:40.2 | May you be blessed this Christmas season with the Songs Tell the Story. |
| 0:44.1 | Request the Songs Tell the Story today at daily article.org. |
| 0:50.9 | Last Friday, the Department of Health and Human Services, HHS, proposed a rule that would end |
| 0:57.2 | discrimination against Catholics and evangelical Protestants in adoption services. |
| 1:02.8 | Regulations put in place at the end of the Obama administration bar organizations that |
| 1:07.8 | believe marriage is between a man and a woman from federal child welfare |
| 1:11.8 | programs. The new rule would allow such ministries to place children for adoption without violating |
| 1:18.0 | their religious beliefs. Of course, this is not how many in the media are reporting the news. |
| 1:23.8 | CBS News leads its coverage. The Trump administration is proposing a new rule that would allow faith-based adoption and foster organizations to deny their services to LGBT couples. |
| 1:35.3 | CNN casts the rule in a similar anti-LGBQ light. |
| 1:40.3 | Russell Moore, President of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern |
| 1:45.1 | Baptist Convention, has an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that gives the rest of the story. |
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