Every Child Deserves a Family!!!

Great news!

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand announced Friday that she would introduce a bill barring federally-funded foster care and child adoption agencies from discriminating against potential adoptive parents because of their sexual orientations or gender identities.

Gillibrand, D-NY, will be the Senate sponsor of the Every Child Deserves a Family Act, backed in the House by California Democrat Pete Stark. The federal government invests some $8 billion in the child welfare system annually, but Gillibrand doesn’t want that money ending up with adoption agencies and foster care entities that don’t consider LGBT parents as candidates to adopt.

Thanks to both Sen. Gillibrand, and Rep. Pete Stark -- who hails from my neck of the woods!  Hard to imagine it will stick in the House, but they both deserve our appreciation!