“Fostering kids is not an easy thing to do,” Christi Dreier of Round Rock, Texas, recently told the Wall Street Journal. Dreier and her partner have fostered several children and adopted three of them. Complaining about a bill that recently passed the Texas house of representatives, she explained, “You treat them like your own, and you have the risk of losing them. Now on top of that, you’re going to tell me I can’t do it because I’m in a same-sex relationship? That doesn’t make sense.”

Dreier is right. That doesn’t make sense. But Texas lawmakers who want to allow adoption agencies that receive state money to turn down prospective parents based on religious beliefs are not trying to prevent Dreier and her partner from adopting. They are trying to keep stable and perhaps increase the number of organizations that can help Texans adopt.