For a brief season in Vermont, Christians could not adopt children because of the DNC-controlled state’s presupposition that homosexuality and transgenderism are good and should be celebrated, especially in children. If your belief system falls outside of their pedo-enabling orthodoxy, you cannot adopt a child. After all, if they want to explore sex with a person of their same sex, or explore their non-existent gender choices, your beliefs would prevent them from being terrorized by leftist child groomers.
Now, Vermont has been reeled in after a settlement between the state’s child grooming and terrorizing agency, the Department of Children and Families, and Christian couples who sued for the right to adopt children without bending the knee to the left’s child grooming ideology. Now, the DCF’s new guidelines protect Christians from leftist terrorism. It reads “[a]pplicants’ sincerely held personal, cultural, religious, moral, or philosophical beliefs shall not be considered in the licensing process.”
Vermont Ends Foster-Care LGBTQ Affirmation Requirement After Lawsuit – standingforfreedom.com
State bans on Christians from the foster care system continue to fall after coming up against legal challenges that claim such policies violate the First Amendment’s protections for religious freedom.
The latest is in Vermont, where a settlement has been reached between the state’s Department of Children and Families (DCF) and two Christian couples who were kicked out of the state’s foster care system because they refused to say they would affirm a hypothetical child’s gender confusion.
Pastor Bryan Gantt and his wife, Rebecca, and Pastor Brian Wuoti and his wife, Katy, were once favorites of the Vermont foster care system. The Wuotis became foster parents in 2014 and adopted two boys from the foster care system. The Gantts became foster parents in 2016 and specialized in caring for children born with drug dependency or fetal alcohol syndrome.
… DCF demanded the couples agree to affirm a child’s gender identity if they were ever asked to care for an LGBT child. Due to their religious beliefs, the couples both said they would love and care for an LGBT child, but they wouldn’t lie to them and affirm their gender confusion.
As a result, they were removed from the foster care system, leading to a lawsuit filed on their behalf by Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF).
On Monday, February 23, ADF issued a statement saying they had reached a settlement with DCF after Vermont created a new policy that no longer requires parents to agree to philosophical statements in order to participate in the foster care system.
Under the settlement, dated February 18, DCF will issue new guidance stating that an “[a]pplicants’ sincerely held personal, cultural, religious, moral, or philosophical beliefs shall not be considered in the licensing process.” DCF also stated that it does not require “endorsement or affirmation of specific identities” nor the “use of particular vocabulary, prescribed language, or preferred pronouns related to gender identity, sexual orientation, or identity expression.”