The Tennessee Court of Appeals has cleared the way for a lawsuit challenging a state law that allows child-placing agencies to deny service to hopeful adoptive parents based on religious beliefs.
In a majority opinion written by Judge Andy D. Bennett Jr. on August 24, the court reversed a three-judge panel at the trial court that sided with a private child-placing facility that refused to serve a hopeful adoptive couple because they did not share their Christian faith.
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