fightingforfaith

Virginia groups may sue over state adoption decision | Reuters.

As of May 1st of this coming year, adoption agencies in the state of Virginia will have the legal right to discriminate who can adopt a child based upon gender, sexual preference, disability and religion. The rationales behind the laws are that 1) the birth-mother has the right to have the child that she is giving up brought up a certain way and 2) “Faith-based” adoption agencies have to right not to be “force[d]…to choose between abandoning their adoption ministries or violating their sincerely-held religious beliefs.” Luckily organizations such as the ACLU and Equality Virginia are not going to accept this sitting down. We will do our best to keep you posted on this story as we hope for changes to happen quickly.

Children Have Rights Too!!! | Atlanta Independent Media Center.

This is the kind of story that makes me ashamed to be a Georgian. A fifth grade boy (I’m assuming fifth or sixth grade since he is eleven years old) is facing a challenge that makes most adults uneasy: religious intolerance.

After missing class for the Samhain Holiday a teacher berated him ending the conversation with, “Paganism is not a religion.” Multiple attempts by the boy’s mother to rectify the situation have all proved fruitless.

This article gives the email addresses and phone numbers for those in charge at the school system that the boy attended (as he will now be home schooled). However, I want to state that this blog does not condone any hateful or dangerous messages sent to any of these people.