This is what the letter said.
Dear Ms Reed and Ms. Fitzner,
Thank you for your interest in, and application to, our Foster Parent Program.
As a Roman Catholic organization bound by the religious tenets of the Church, we are not in a position to further process your application for a foster home license or to make a recommendation to OCAL. (Office of Children and Adult Licensing). Accordingly, we will take no further action on your application.
Please be advised that there are other Child Placement Agencies in the greater Lansing area that will process your application for foster home licensure and to provide the appropriate certification and recommendation to OCAL.
Should you have any questions about the licensing process or other available Child Placement Agencies, you may contact...
So as you can see they never came out and said "because your gay" in the letter. We sort of feel this is a further slap in the face. At least they could be up front about it in the letter. It is not like it is something that you can't speak of. But maybe that is how they handle all denials. Maybe if someone was denied because they had a criminal background, or their home was unsafe, or they had someone dangerous in their home they would get the same letter. It is nice to know we are all on the same level.
Dear Ms Reed and Ms. Fitzner,
Thank you for your interest in, and application to, our Foster Parent Program.
As a Roman Catholic organization bound by the religious tenets of the Church, we are not in a position to further process your application for a foster home license or to make a recommendation to OCAL. (Office of Children and Adult Licensing). Accordingly, we will take no further action on your application.
Please be advised that there are other Child Placement Agencies in the greater Lansing area that will process your application for foster home licensure and to provide the appropriate certification and recommendation to OCAL.
Should you have any questions about the licensing process or other available Child Placement Agencies, you may contact...
So as you can see they never came out and said "because your gay" in the letter. We sort of feel this is a further slap in the face. At least they could be up front about it in the letter. It is not like it is something that you can't speak of. But maybe that is how they handle all denials. Maybe if someone was denied because they had a criminal background, or their home was unsafe, or they had someone dangerous in their home they would get the same letter. It is nice to know we are all on the same level.
5 comments:
oh the catholics...they are a loving bunch aren't they!! oh god bless them and thier "jesus loves the little children" beliefs.
again, i'm really sorry... and it's still legal in the state of michigan to discriminate based on sexual orientation anyway. we could all be fired for being gay, and it'd be absolutely legal. (i actually didn't get hired by the first temp agency i went to when i first moved back to this lovely state because i was told that they did not have the kinds of jobs for "people like me.")
wow. I can't even believe that shit is legal. that is SO not ok!!
they ain't EVEN know!
they are doing some lil' muffin a HUGE disservice by not letting him/her stay with y'all.
I'm so sorry Virlena. When it rains it pours. Self-righteous, hypocrytical nonsense is no excuse for denying a child home/ happiness when there are so many in need of the above.
I wish for a better world. I'm sorry that they could not see past their own prejudices.
God! I love the Church.
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