The Mountain and the Tree

Adoption agencies, whatever their faith background, should obey state law and should not discriminate unlawfully against prospective parents. They also shouldn't discriminate against children. Around 10% of these children will turn out to be queer. If the agency is homophobic and the parents are buying into that, then there is a strong chance that such children will have a wretched time of it and experience homophobia from their adoptive parents. The consequences of this are serious: suicide rates are particularly high amongst young gay men in particular (http://www.mind.org.uk/Information/Factsheets/Diversity/Factsheetlgb.htm), along with incidence of bullying and so forth. Many young queer people are rejected by their families, even thrown out into the street. Because of this, I feel that no child should be placed with an avowedly homophobic family for risk of ill-treatment. How would we react if the Catholic Church dragged out some biblical quotation that was supposedly against disability or mixed-race, and claimed their right to reject all disabled or mixed-race parents (or children, come to that)?