The end of Illinois Catholic Charities

Charlie Butts and Bob Kellogg
OneNewsNow
11/16/2011

After 90 years of assisting in providing foster care for children, Catholic Charities of Illinois has been forced to cease services.

The problem began with passage of the Illinois civil unions law for same-gender pairs, which led the state to force Christian foster care and adoption organizations to consider homosexual couples, even though that is contrary to basic Christian doctrine. Catholic Charities filed suit, but the state has already begun transferring the children out.

"Unfortunately, the clock has run out on the Catholic Charities case because the state has begun the transition process for the children under the care of Catholic Charities in the foster care," reports Peter Breen of the Thomas More Society. "And so we are going to move to dismiss the appeal, unfortunately. But again, due to the action of the state of Illinois, we have now come to a point with this case where it's become moot."  the rest