[WizardofOz]

Hadley2,

loved your post! It was often my experience that domestic adoption is biased towards people of Christian faith because of the supply-demand situation in the domestic adoption market.

When I adopted, many agencies either rejected me because of my religion or I got overly pressured to "disclose" my religion, i.e. "admit" that my baby will not be raised Christian. The agencies must have figured that I was not "attractive" to birthmothers because of my non-mainstream religion.

I agree with you that it is the birth parents' responsibility to ask.

I would not like to "disclose" my religion in the profile, explicitly or via sublime messages like a menorah. Such a request would feel to me as bad as a request to wear a yellow Star of David.

However, I would not mind mentioning my religion in the social history questionnaire by the agency so that my profile will not be presented to birthparents who require adoptive parents of Christian faith.