Oregon Denies Christian Woman’s Application to Adopt as She Rejects Child Transgender Policies

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The state of Oregon is denying the application of a woman who wants to adopt because she is a Christian and will not agree to support gender transition if the child she adopts ends up being trans. Critics say that this was planned as a backdoor way to discriminate against Christians. The policy has penalized the woman for her religious views, compels her to speak words that violate her beliefs, and deprives her of equal protection of the law because of her faith.

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The state of Oregon is denying the application of a woman who wants to adopt because she is a Christian and will not agree to support gender transition if the child she adopts ends up being trans.

This is where the left has planned to take this argument from the start. It’s a backdoor way to openly discriminate against people of faith.

They don’t care about the welfare of children, they care about spreading their ideology.

Alliance Defending Freedom is suing on her behalf:

Oregon officials put politics above children’s welfare

“On behalf of a single mother of five wishing to adopt siblings from foster care, Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed a federal lawsuit Monday against Oregon state officials for denying her application because of her religious beliefs.

Jessica Bates began the process of applying to become certified to adopt a child from Oregon’s foster care system one year ago. The Oregon Department of Human Services, the agency responsible for the delivery and administration of the state’s child welfare programs, denied her application because individuals seeking to adopt must agree to “respect, accept, and support … the sexual orientation, gender identity, [and] gender expression” of any child the department could place in an applicant’s home, and Bates could not agree to this because of her faith.

“Oregon’s policy amounts to an ideological litmus test: people who hold secular or ‘progressive’ views on sexual orientation and gender identity are eligible to participate in child welfare programs, while people of faith with religiously informed views are disqualified because they don’t agree with the state’s orthodoxy,” said ADF Senior Counsel Jonathan Scruggs, director of the ADF Center for Conscience Initiatives. “The government can’t exclude certain communities of faith from foster care and adoption services because the state doesn’t like their particular religious beliefs.”

During her application process, Bates alerted ODHS that she will happily love and accept any child, but she cannot say or do something that goes against her Christian faith. ODHS’s policy, however, excludes her and others who hold traditional religious beliefs about human nature and sexuality by requiring parents to use a child’s preferred pronouns, take a child to affirming events like Pride parades, or facilitate a child’s access to dangerous pharmaceutical interventions like puberty blockers and hormone shots if the child so requests. As such, ODHS’s policy penalizes Bates for her religious views, compels her to speak words that violate her beliefs, and deprives her of equal protection of the law because of her faith.”

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CONROY SHIELDS
CONROY SHIELDS
11 months ago

WE HAVE ACCEPTED ABNORMALITY AS NORMAL

Ragnar D.
Ragnar D.
11 months ago

This was foreseeable as the state continued its invasion into our family lives in new and peculiar ways. Thankfully most Christians still have the option of producing children and starting families the old-fashioned way which can squeeze out the state from interfering in lifestyle and religious instruction. Government schools are very important to the leftist woke people because they tend to abort their own kids, so they need to get access to the kids of the Christians to promote their nonsense.