Earlier this month, a committee began considering a regulation that would have banned any licensed adoption agency in Virigina from discriminating against an adoptive parent based on sexual orientation. The Governor of Virginia, an opponent of same-sex adoption, and possibly unaware of the regulation under consideration, soon came under attack by religious organizations. Online petitions from both sides followed.
The Virigina Board of Social Services has now issued its opinion and rejected language that would have banned Virigina faith-based adoption agencies from discriminating against adoptive parents based on their sexual orientation.
