"There are several very real threats to the Texas power grid, and the consequences would be so severe that we should address this now", Hall said.
As ThinkProgress noted when the bill passed the Texas House in May, the bill affects not only child placement services (think adoption agencies), but group homes, counseling services, care for abused children, and other resources for children with complicated family situations.
Robert Oscar Lopez, a leader in exposing the dangers of homosexual parenting as one who himself was raised by lesbians, hailed Abbott's signing of HB 3589 as "wonderful news".
Reporter John Moritz, who covers Texas government and politics for the USA Today Network, says one theme of the governor's vetoes was state versus local control.
We know you have questions, and we want to answer them. "It should be exceedingly rare, but gay activists want to make it common". "Discrimination has won in Texas", said Sarah Kate Ellis, president and CEO of GLAAD, an LGBT advocacy group.
"Such an imbalance of rights not only could leave these children worse off than they are now, it opens the door to blatant discrimination against children and loving parents who might not share the same beliefs as some foster care providers", Democratic State Sen.
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The new law also prohibits the state from taking adverse action against adoption agencies for providing children with a religious education, which observers have interpreted as allowing agencies to engage in widely discredited conversion therapy.
"The state should embrace a diversity of providers", Perry said. "HB 3859 ensures that there's a place at the table for everyone at a time when Texas children need everyone at the table".
But religious minorities will also be impacted by the bill, which allows child welfare organizations to place children who are members of religious minorities (Jewish or Muslim children, for example) into Christian schools.
"This law was never about the best interests of Texans or of children, but about forwarding a political agenda to codify the permission to discriminate against LGBTQ Texans into state law", Ellisa said in a statement.
Abbott signed House Bill 3859 into law on Thursday that seeks to protect religious child welfare agencies from being forced to provide services that go against their convictions. "At worst, it will rob children of their livelihoods by unduly denying LGBT, single, or non-Christian parents opportunities to save children from the cycle of abuse and neglect they will nearly certainly encounter growing up in the Texas foster care system".
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