Appellate Judges Revive Jewish Couple’s Lawsuit Alleging Adoption Bias Under Tennessee Law August 25th, 20PM August 25th, 20PM NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Appellate judges have revived a couple’s lawsuitthat alleges a state-sponsored Christian adoption agency wouldn’t help them because they are Jewish and argues that a Tennessee law protecting such denials is unconstitutional. On Thursday, a three-judge panel of the state Court of Appeals ruled that Elizabeth and Gabriel Rutan-Ram have the right as taxpayers to sue in the case, as do six other taxpayer plaintiffs in the case. The ruling overturns a lower court’s determination in June 2022that none of them had legal standing. The case can now proceed in the trial court. The lawsuit against the state challenges a 2020 law that installed legal protections for private adoption agencies to reject state-funded placement of children to parents based on religious beliefs. Much of the criticism of the law focused on how it shielded adoption agencies that refuse to serve prospective LGBTQ parents. But the Rutan-Rams alleged they were discriminated against because they were Jewish, in violation of their state constitutional rights. In their lawsuit, the couple said the Holston United Methodist Home for Children in Greeneville barred […]
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