A Christian Adoption Agency Resists the Rise in Anti-LGBTQ+ Laws

A child carries rainbow flags while he takes part in a march during the annual Gay Pride Parade in New York on June 28, 2015. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz 

For years, Dietz Osborne and his colleagues at Miriam’s Promise adoption agency in Nashville, Tenn. had quietly worked with LGBTQ+ couples looking to adopt children. It was not something the United Methodist-affiliated agency advertised or promoted, but when a same-gender couple came to them, Miriam’s Promise unassumingly welcomed them as clients.

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