In response to laws forbidding discrimination against same-sex couples who wish to serve as foster parents and adopt children in Washington, D.C., Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington has ended the foster care and adoption program it has operated in the nations capital for more than eight decades.

Laura Wright of the Catholic News Services reported on the archdioceses decision in a Feb. 22 article:

The program  which covered 43 children and their biological families, 35 foster families and seven staff members  was transferred to the National Center for Children and Families Feb. 1.

Under a new law allowing same-sex marriage in the District of Columbia, Catholic Charities would have been required to place children with same-sex parents for foster care and adoption, which would violate church teaching that marriage is a permanent union between one man and one woman.

Catholic Charities has been providing foster care in one form or another for decades. ... To transition this to another agency certainly was a real loss for us, said Edward Orzechowski, president and CEO of Catholic Charities.

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