(AP) — Faith-based adoption agencies, including those that care for state foster children, could turn away gay couples on religious grounds without risk of losing their state license, under a bill advanced Wednesday by the Alabama Senate Health Committee. Committee members voted 6-1 for the bill after an emotional public hearing that included people who urged protections for faith-based groups that place children for adoption and others who said it would allow state-sanctioned discrimination against gays and lesbians. The legislation that would prohibit the state from refusing to license or sign contracts with adoption groups that refuse services to people on religious grounds.