re: #685 reine.de.tout

going by what happened in Massachusetts with Catholic Charities and their adoption services - no, they cannot discriminate based on religious beliefs that go against what the state has mandated. And so they simply closed.

I find that frightening.

It is frightening.
The same thing happened here in the UK, when NuLab pushed this sort of anti-discriminatory law through.
The RC Church, from the Cardinals down, tried to negotiate - and said they would be forced to close their adoption services.
NuLab pooh-pooh’ed this - and recently, the service in Birmingham was shut down by the RC Church.

What is even more frightening is that the Social services, e.g. in Scotland, are now giving children to gay couples for adoption, even though the grandparents are still alive, (mid-fifties) and said they were willing and able to raise their grandchildren.
Nothing doing. Anti-discrimination laws beat family cohesion hands down.