Faith-based adoption agencies that contract with Michigan can refuse to place children with same-sex couples under a proposed settlement filed in federal court, a HuffPost item noted.
The development happened months after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled for a Catholic charity in a similar case.
The state Department of Health and Human Services said the high court's ruling against Philadelphia is binding on the state and limits its ability to enforce a non-discrimination policy.
In 2019, Lansing-based St. Vincent Catholic Charities sued the state, challenging a deal Attorney General Dana Nessel announced to resolve an earlier lawsuit brought against the state by lesbian couples who said they were turned away by faith-based agencies. That pact said a 2015 Republican-backed law letting child-placement agencies deny services that conflict with their religious beliefs does not apply if they are under contract with the state.