Pound Pup Legacy Announces 2011 Winner of Demon in Adoption Award

This year, marking their five year anniversary of the Demon Awards, instead of having only one nomination category, they decided to “break up the nominations in three categories: The Industry, The Regulators and The Mouth Pieces.”The most votes in the Industry category went to The Church of Latter Day Saints. The Regulator votes were overwhelmingly for The State of Utah. For Mouth Piece, or “intellectual justification” the votes went to Harvard Professor  Elizabeth Bartholet.

The overall winner was declared as The Church of Latter Day Saints. Read the entire post here.

One excerpt: “In a world already enshrined in secrecy and obfuscation, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints stands as the epitome of opacity. Every single not for-profit adoption agency in the US is registered with the IRS as a 501(c)3, obliged to file an annual report about their finances.

LDS Family Services is the only exception to the rule, having registered itself as a church and thereby being exempt from financial disclosure.

With 96 offices throughout the US, LDS Family Services is likely to be one of the largest agencies in the world. Even adoption behemoth Bethany Christian Services has fewer offices than the LDS Family Services, but it is impossible to know the extent of their enterprise and the number of adoptions they approximately process. ”

Wow! Great work, again, Pound Pup Legacy!

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