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Massachusetts foster parents lose license after refusing to sign gender affirming policy
Cbsnews.com ^ | 10/10/2025 | Louisa Moller

Posted on 10/10/2025 5:29:33 AM PDT by massmike

A couple from Woburn, Massachusetts has lost their license to foster children after they refused to sign a gender affirming policy form from the Department of Children and Families (DCF).

Lydia and Heath Marvin have three kids in their teens, but they have fostered eight different children under the age of 4 since 2020. Their most recent foster child was a baby with complex medical needs who stayed with them for 15 months.

"Our Christian faith, it really drives us toward that. James says that true undefiled religion is to care for the fatherless," said Heath.

The couple said they were prepared to care for more foster children until DCF pulled their license to foster in April.

That's because the Marvins refused to sign the agency's LGBTQIA+ Non-Discrimination Policy because of their Christian faith. Starting in 2022, the policy said that foster families must affirm the LGBTQIA+ identity of foster children.

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KEYWORDS: children; foster; fosterchildren; gender; genderaffirming; homosexualagenda; intercession; massachusetts; woburn

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1 posted on 10/10/2025 5:29:33 AM PDT by massmike
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To: massmike

Lawsuit. Take DCF to court.


2 posted on 10/10/2025 5:44:22 AM PDT by The Louiswu (USA FIRST...USA FOREVER)
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To: massmike

This is all the result of making homosexual marriage legal.


3 posted on 10/10/2025 5:44:34 AM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: massmike

Gay 4 years olds? There must be a large calling to foster gay infants and toddlers.

I have a bigger question. Shouldn’t they investigate foster parents who claim their toddlers are gay? What acts are they performing on these children?

EC


4 posted on 10/10/2025 5:44:57 AM PDT by Ex-Con777 (Leftists quote the Constitution like an atheist quotes the Bible)
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To: massmike
Massachusetts is the disgusting state that likes to be low key about it.
5 posted on 10/10/2025 5:46:41 AM PDT by Vision (“Our Democracy” means "Our Slush Fund." The Left is hate.)
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To: Vision

Lol i live in Mass…. Theres is nothing low key about it. They thrive in and embrace their disgustingness while its citizens pay the price.


6 posted on 10/10/2025 5:51:52 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

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7 posted on 10/10/2025 6:29:37 AM PDT by bitt (<IMG SRC=' 'WIDTH=500>)
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To: massmike

Death penalty for anyone involved in the enterprise of child castration. If that means mass executions, so be it.


8 posted on 10/10/2025 6:38:39 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along.)
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To: massmike

Some states just aren’t worth living in.

Get. Out.


9 posted on 10/10/2025 7:07:25 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Annnd....TRUMP IS RIGHT AGAIN.)
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To: Salman
Help keep him working at the children's hospital for "the cause"

BloodyButcher

Don't make him go back to the grocer's deli department where his skills are wasted.
Dial 1-800-LOPTOFF now to make a difference.

10 posted on 10/10/2025 7:19:08 AM PDT by MikelTackNailer (When in doubt I whip it out. Got on the girl's volleyball team it's a Free-for-All!)
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To: massmike

Massachusetts another liberal infested state


11 posted on 10/10/2025 7:34:29 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Ge0ffrey

“This is all the result of making homosexual marriage legal.”

Remember, that was all they wanted.


12 posted on 10/10/2025 7:43:31 AM PDT by dljordan (The Rewards of Tolerance are Treachery and Betrayal)
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To: Ge0ffrey

That opened the floodgates of hell which is what we have been experiencing the ever since.

Almost immediately, trans became the next thing right after that ruling, the Supreme court pulled out of their a$$.


13 posted on 10/10/2025 8:30:00 AM PDT by packrat35 (“When discourse ends, violence begins.” – Charlie Kirk, and they killed him anyway)
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