Please notice what reason they gave for not protecting LGBTQIA kids from abuse, bullying, and not getting equal treatment. It violates their religious freedom to be kind and treat those kids fairly. Yes, read the article. I am so sick of these people trying to force their religion on everyone. Yet they claim to be removing LGBTQIA from society and the public to protect children. But they demand the right to abuse LGBTQIA kids? All this rule does is prevent gay kids from being placed with fundamentalist religious people that feel entitled to force these kids in to conversion therapy, which has been proven to be harmful and dangerous. Hugs. Scottie
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey this week joined with 18 other states to oppose a proposed federal rule that aims to protect LGBTQ youth in foster care and provide them with necessary services.
The attorneys general argue in a letter to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services that the proposed rule — which requires states to provide safe and appropriate placements with providers who are appropriately trained about the child’s sexual orientation or gender identity — amounts to religion-based discrimination and violates freedom of speech.
“As a foster parent myself,” Bailey said in a news release Tuesday, “I am deeply invested in protecting children and putting their best interests first. Biden’s proposed rule does exactly the opposite by enacting policies meant to exclude people with deeply held religious beliefs from being foster parents.”
Read the full article. Missouri’s state child care agency already provides pro-LGBTQ guidance to prospective foster parents.
But… who else will they push to suicide? How else will they guarantee to calm their god’s vengeful spirit and avert natural disasters if not through human sacrifice!? /s
He needs to complete that sentence: enacting policies meant to exclude people with deeply held religious beliefs from being foster parentsto LGBT children they’d shame and torture.
I join you in that hate. It is constantly bandied about, but never defined, tested or challenged in court.
Kim Davis waved her “sincerely held” card, yet never had to prove it. She was an adulteress, divorced and changed her religion. Doesn’t sound too sincere to me.
Because religion in general, and Christianity in fucking particular, enjoy undue and unbridled entitlement and privilege and special rights i9n this fucked up country.
Because they are a powerful voting block and are pandered to by one part.
“In God We Trust” is the official motto of the United States as well as the motto of the U.S. state of Florida. It was adopted by the U.S. Congress in 1956, replacing E pluribus unum, which had been the de facto motto since the initial design of the Great Seal of the United States
I wouldn’t mind if they tried to play deeply religious kids with foster parents who would support their religious activities. That seems fair. So why don’t they want the same for lgbt kids. Oh right. Their “right” to be bigots means inflicting their bullshit on everyone, even if it drives them to suicide.
There would be very few children in the foster care system if *heterosexual* parents didn't abuse and abandon their children by the tens of thousands every year. https://t.co/mWvMWaLxs7
Notice it just requires them to be “trained” on LBGTQ+ issues, not even believe or support them. But I guess that’s a bridge too far for these fuckers.
“which requires states to provide safe and appropriate placements with providers who are appropriately trained about the child’s sexual orientation or gender identity”
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