Action | Adopt new standards for licensed private child-placing agencies. |
Stage | Proposed |
Comment Period | Ended on 4/1/2011 |
Proposed Virginia Administrative Code section 22 VAC 40-131-170 provides that:
"[Private adoption agencies] shall prohibit acts of discrimination based on . . . sexual orientation, disability or family status to:
1. Delay or deny a child's placement; or
2. Deny an individual the opportunity to apply to become a foster or adoptive parent."
Please delete "sexual orientation" from this Code. The proposal, as currently written, is unwise and discriminatory. Do not make Virginia a state that mandates moral/immoral beliefs/religion on everyone.
Thank you.