I posited no false premise in most post. Usually a question mark (?) means someone is seeking information.
I don’t know so was ASKING about what it meant for CC to receive no more state money.
CC does NOT train families for foster care? In our state, there are a myriad of private organizations who do this for the state. The state stopped doing it due to budget restrictions. Isn’t CC a non-profit organization?
I don’t understand how CC or the state of Illinois can continue to license foster care families through an organization who procures those families if the state cuts off the money. Will the state stop paying a f/c stipend to the families licensed through CC? I would think the state social workers would just stop placing children with CC families.
I think CC should fight this. Most Americans would be on their side.
I suppose it's your use of the word "train" that doesn't set right. There is no training period. They investigate, the social worker, whether he/she is Catholic, Lutheran, whoever is contracted to do it comes to your house, as I stated the one who came here was with Lutheran Social Services.
They count your beds and bed rooms, they even get a tape measure out and measure them. They check for smoke and C.O. detectors, the general upkeep of the physical premises and they ask a lot of questions, questions that you might not ordinarily want to answer but this is all voluntary on your part, the questions are just part of the procedure you volunteered for.
Questions about income and expenses, have your utility bills handy because they want to actually see them, plus your W-2s from the last year. They ask about any criminal convictions in you or your spouses past, might as well tell the truth on that because you also have to give them permission to run a Criminal Background Investigation on you.
I believe you and I may actually be on the same side of this issue, I do not want homosexuals raising children or adopting them. I applaud the Catholic church for not folding so they can get "Caeser's money".
I'm trying to point out that this can be done by Catholic Charities as it is done by others. The one I noted has been doing it successfully since 1918 without any tax payer money. The Catholics I know are every bit as generous as any other religious people. This issue is more important to moral people than any relatively minor religious differences among religions. I do not know the ins and outs of these various religious agencies and can't answer some of your questions but I do know that agencies that don't accept "government money" are not affected when government comes up with this immoral crap.
The Baptist agency I mentioned isn't affected yet but they are a charitable group and are tax exempt. Liberals are after those tax exempt organizations, the religion based ones anyway.
I have long advocated for my local church to voluntarily give up its tax exempt status but believe me, I'm a lone voice crying in the wilderness on that issue.
While I'm "preaching", I'll also say that the Catholic Charities I have long donated to uses my money for the purposes I intend. I do not donate to the Catholic church, I go in person to Catholic Social Services and put the check in the hand of the Sister in charge of taking care of these pregnant teen age girls and we talk, she's the easiest person in the world to talk to and is anxious to tell me all I want to know about how things are coming along.