The Biden-Harris administration finalized a rule in April requiring foster parents to affirm a child’s gender ideology.
“The provider must commit to establishing an environment that supports the child’s LGBTQI+ status or identity,” according to the rule issued by the Department of Health and Human Services.
The policy, says Herbie Newell, president and executive director of Lifeline Children’s Services, “made people of faith into a different category of foster and adoptive parent, saying that because they didn’t give in to this pro-radical LGBTQ+ agenda, that they couldn’t foster any child with gender dysphoria or any child that might be having any questions about their LGBTQ status.”
“Faith-based Christian people were put on the sidelines and not able to participate in our foster care and adoption system in the same way,” Newell says.
With over 350,000 children in the U.S. foster care system and over 100,000 of them waiting to be adopted, Newell says, he is hopeful that the incoming Trump administration will roll back such “oppressive administrative rulings.” […]
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