A proposed rule by the Trump administration would allow foster care and adoption agencies to deny their services to LGBT + families on religious grounds.
This proposal would have a monumental effect on many people. The Department of Health and Human Services introduced it on November 1st, at the beginning of National Adoption Month. If implemented, it would roll back a 2016 discrimination regulation put in place by the Obama administration that included sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes. Any foster care or adoption agency would be free to turn away LGBT+ couples. Critics said the rule would allow organizations to place their personal religious beliefs above the needs of children in their care, but the administration countered that it was not preventing LGBT+ people from adopting. “The administration is rolling back an Obama-era rule that was proposed in the 12 o’clock hour of the last administration that jeopardizes the ability of faith-based providers to continue serving their communities,” the White House said in a statement. “The federal government should not be in the business of forcing child welfare providers to choose between helping children and their faith.” According to the Adoption Network, there are more than 400,000 children in the foster care system in the United States. More than 114,000 cannot be returned to their families and are waiting to be adopted. The Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law estimated in a report that 114,000 same-sex couples in 2016 were raising children in the United States. Same-sex couples with children were far more likely than different-sex couples with children to have an adopted child, 21.4 percent versus 3 percent, the report found. Reports have also found that same-sex couples are more likely to adopt children of color, mentally or physically disabled children, LGBT+ children, and teenagers. But yeah, let's keep them from adopting children. I hate humanity sometimes. ~Cas (be gay do crime)
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