Catholics need not apply - UPDATE

There is so much talk about the need for more loving families to adopt that it is really surprising to hear that families are being being turned away. Why are anxious adoptive parents being turned down? Is the father a pedophile? Is mom a drunk? Are they satanists? No it is much worse. Turns out people in Mississippi are being turned down for adopting babies because they are (GASP) Catholics.

UPDATE & BUMP TO THE TOP:

Thanks to Rod Stanton (or more appropriately his daughter) for providing a link to a followup to this story.

After being criticized for excluding Roman Catholics as adoptive parents, the board of Bethany Christian Services in Mississippi has voted unanimously to include Catholic families in adoption programs.

As a naturally cynical person my first thought was this decision was prompted by a threat to cut of public funding. In the end it matters not what their motivation was as long as they changed their policy. Considering the need for loving families to raise children it would be senseless to to turn otherwise qualified people away solely on the basis of religious denomination.