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  2. LGBTQ rights in Tennessee - Wikipedia

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    Tennessee allows single persons to adopt children. Same-sex couples may legally adopt in the state. In 2007, the Tennessee Attorney General released an opinion that no state law prohibited adoption by same-sex couples and that such adoptions could be made if in the child's best interest. [18]

  3. Appellate judges revive Jewish couple's lawsuit alleging ...

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    Appellate judges have revived a couple's lawsuit that alleges a state-sponsored Christian adoption agency wouldn't help them because they are Jewish and argues that a Tennessee law protecting such ...

  4. Georgia Tann - Wikipedia

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    The Tennessee Children's Home Society scandal resulted in adoption reform laws in Tennessee in 1951. [47] Tann's custom of creating false birth certificates for adoptees (which she did to hide the origins of the child) had become standard practice nationwide. [35]

  5. Lawsuit alleging religious discrimination in Tennessee ... - AOL

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    A Jewish couple sued Tennessee in 2022 after a Christian adoption agency blocked them from state-mandated foster care training. Lawsuit alleging religious discrimination in Tennessee adoption law ...

  6. ACLU urges Tennessee gov not to sign anti-LGBT adoption bill

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    A civil rights group is raising questions about the legality of a Tennessee proposal that would assure continued taxpayer funding of faith-based foster care and adoption agencies even if they ...

  7. Tennessee Children's Home Society - Wikipedia

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    The Tennessee Children's Home Society was chartered as a non-profit corporation in 1897. [2] In 1913, the Secretary of State granted the society a second charter. [2] The Society received community support from organizations that supported its mission of "the support, maintenance, care, and welfare of white children under seven years of age admitted to [its] custody."