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Foster care and adoption ministries praise ruling in Fulton v. Philadelphia

Kenneth Pybus

Jul 18, 2021

Jimmy Moore had been waiting for months for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide Fulton v. Philadelphia.

The nation’s high court had heard oral arguments in November over whether the City of Philadelphia could refuse to certify a Catholic foster care agency unless the charity agreed to place foster children with same-sex married couples.

To Moore, president and CEO of The Children’s Home of Lubbock, and to leaders of dozens of other child services ministries associated with Churches of Christ, the question was crucial.

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