Oklahoma Moves to Protect Faith-Based Adoption, the Usual Players Lose Their Minds

Three cheers for Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin and Oklahoma state government. They did the right thing.

It was the right thing, and it’s causing the LGBT(add additional letters as new anomalies are named) community to go apoplectic.

Late Friday evening, Governor Fallin signed into law a bill that provides legal protection to faith-based adoption agencies that prefer to place children with married, heterosexual couples.

Gay rights groups see this as an attack on their community (since everything is about them, apparently).

It’s not. The bill, written by Republican Senator Greg Treat, simply allows for religious adoption agencies the freedom to operate within the guidelines of their faith. After all, the whole purpose for a faith-based organization is to provide a service, but to do so within a religious context.

Note some of the outlandish protestations from the Gaystapo:

The Family Equality Council, which advocates for LGBTQ families, said in a statement that the Oklahoma law targets the gay community and encourages religious-based adoption agencies “to discriminate on the basis of their belief that LGBTQ people should not be raising children.”

It’s not discrimination. It’s a belief system, and the First Amendment allows us to practice our faith freely. They’ve chosen to cater to married, heterosexual couples, because that follows the mandate for marriage for pretty much every major religion in the world, and most definitely for the Christian community.

While breathing threats of a lawsuit – the last bastion of scoundrels and fascists – Freedom Oklahoma, another advocacy group, made this statement:

“Make no mistake, we will fight for the most vulnerable Oklahomans targeted by this law. Our message to Gov. Fallin and the lawmakers who championed this travesty is simple: We’ll see you in court!” said Executive Director Troy Stevenson.

I’m going to assume he feels the LGBT community are the “most vulnerable,” because, as I mentioned, it’s about them getting what they want, not the children.

Let’s examine the facts.

Does this law prevent homosexuals from adopting?

It does not.

There are other adoption services in the state of Oklahoma that have no specific religious foundation. Gay couples who wish to adopt are free to use these services. They need never cross paths with those pesky moral stumbling blocks set up by Christian organizations, who see a home with a loving mother and father as optimal for the healthy development of children.

In other words, this law takes absolutely nothing away from the LGBT community.

The diversity crowd always champion that word – “diversity” – but what they actually mean is “Think like us… or else.”

How hard would it be for a gay couple considering adoption to research the agencies, see that one is a faith-based agency, and say, “Oh, they’ll likely not want to work with us. Let’s look somewhere else”?

It wouldn’t be difficult, if any of this was actually about adoption.

Think back to the case of the Oregon bakery, Sweet Cakes by Melissa, and the Klein family.

They were ruined when a lesbian couple asked them to bake a wedding cake, which they refused to do, because of their religious convictions.

They were sued to the point that this family could no longer afford to operate their business.

This was a clear case of the Klein family’s First Amendment rights being crushed by an activist judge, who felt there was merit to the insane claim of the lesbian couple that they felt “mentally raped” by not having their cake baked at this very specific bakery.

What was missed in this case, so dutifully covered up by leftist activists is that the couple had been served by that bakery with no trouble, whatsoever, many times before. It was only when they asked that these Christians bake a wedding cake for a same-sex wedding that suddenly – they were discriminating.

Marriage is a sacred union in the Christian faith. The Klein family respectfully declined to be seen as participating in something that is outside of God’s blueprint for marriage, by baking a cake.

Are we to believe that in all of Oregon, theirs was the only bakery? Could this couple not go elsewhere?

Of course they could have. To do that, however, would have defeated the purpose of punishing Christians for their faith.

That judge and that lesbian couple are the worst kind of bullies – the kind who target others, then pretend they’re the victims.

For the LGBT community, this had nothing to do with the cake and everything to do with the Klein family’s Christian identity. Any attempts to frame it otherwise is a lie. Full stop.

And now they want to punish faith-based adoption agencies, and by extension, the children and families their actions would affect.

Because it’s all about forced compliance to a worldview for the militant LGBT community and their backers.

Catholic bishops in Oklahoma expressed their appreciation of the bill, however.

“The new law will bring more adoption services to the state and allow crucial faith-based agencies to continue their decades-long tradition of caring for Oklahoma’s most vulnerable children,” Oklahoma’s Catholic bishops said in a statement.

True. Without the threat of being bullied by the selfish actions of social justice storm troopers, it gives a certain amount of security and breathing room.

Senator Treat offered this, regarding his bill:

“I would not be standing here on a bill as controversial as this if I didn’t believe it would help more children to get into loving homes,” Treat said during a sometimes testy debate near the end of the legislative session earlier this month. But gay rights groups disagreed, saying it would lead to fewer children being placed because some groups would exclude same sex homes from hosting them.

Again, there are other, secular adoption services in Oklahoma. Saying this move hurts the children is not true.

But, to reiterate, it’s not about what’s good for the children. They’re a secondary thought, at best.

The new law kicks in on November 1. We can expect a lot of belly-aching and the usual, “poor, victimized us!” from the raging bullies on the left.