Commentary
By Charles C. Haynes
Director, Religious Freedom Education Project
When rights claims collide, what’s the collateral damage to society?
That’s the painful question this week out of Illinois, site of the latest conflict between gay-rights laws and religious convictions.
When the state’s new civil-unions law took effect June 1, a Catholic diocese in northern Illinois ended its state-funded adoption and foster-care program rather than be required to place children with same-sex couples.
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