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Originally Posted by WizardofOz
Have started a second adoption  ... and signed up with the agency from which we got our first baby. I am still considering signing up with a second adoption professional and so I am doing research. And again, I hit religious discrimination and it is just so offending. One those to whom it happened know how awful it feels.
I was recommended an agency in Utah and so I contacted them. On their website, it did not say clearly that they are "Christian". The lady that I talked with was very nice, she is an adoptive mother herself and she took her time (which adoption professionals value dearly) to explain everything to
me.
At some point, I casually mentioned that I am Jewish. Then the tone changed! She asked me if I celebrated the Christian holidays and when I said that her brisk answer was that they could not work with me- and JUST SHE HUNG UP ON ME! 
The feeling that I got from this was that as nice and understanding as she was towards me - when she learnt that I was a Jew, she saw me as"useless", not even worth properly terminating a phone conversation.
I decided to demonstrate to her what our Jewish values are about, so I called her again. She did not answer (I was not worth it), so I left a message, thanking her for our conversation and wishing her a happy holiday season.
But I still need to vent, so here you go ...  Religious discrimination makes me sick to my stomach, I had to experience in my first adoption and also in my second. Who decided that adoption is an act of "Christian benevolence" and who decided that minority religions do not have proper values to raise a child?! How backwards are some folks?! I hope it'll change one day, probably on the day we will have a Jewish president ... |
Wizard, I'm so sorry that you had to go through that. I used to live in the "Bible Belt" and had my own experiences, good and bad. I found it very painful sometimes, meeting new people, making a good connection UNTIL they find out I'm Jewish. All over sudden I seem to sprout horns, cloven hooves and a tail..
If only these ignoramusses working for these agencies would realize just how home/family-oriented Judaism is, maybe they wouldn't be so quick to judge.
I've lived in Israel for almost 9 years. DH and I adopted two little miracles locally.
Much success with finding your second child!