Posted on 05/24/2019 4:35:29 PM PDT by be-baw
The Trump administration will soon make it easier for adoption agencies to reject same-sex couples, senior administration officials told Axios.
Why it matters: President Trump is steadily rolling back Obama-era nondiscrimination policies across the entire federal government — including health care, housing and the military.
Details: Former President Obama banned adoption and foster-care agencies from receiving federal funding if they refused to work with same-sex couples. Religious organizations have consistently bristled at that policy, arguing that they're being forced to contradict their beliefs.
Administration officials said the White House is weighing two options: either rescinding those rules altogether, or adding an explicit exemption for religious organizations.
The debate is mainly about which approach would hold up better in court, the officials said. A religious exemption seems to have the upper hand for now, but that could change.
Trump alluded to this issue at the National Prayer Breakfast earlier this year, but did not announce a formal policy.
The process is now far enough along that an announcement could happen by early July, the officials said.
Between the lines: The formal policy would come from the Health and Human Services Department's Office of Civil Rights — which has been at the forefront of Trump's broader effort to accommodate religious organizations and roll back nondiscrimination rules.
The director of that office, Roger Severino, would not directly address questions about the adoption policy during a brief interview, pointing instead to other actions his office has already taken.
Just this morning, OCR said it will scrap an Obama-era policy that says doctors can't discriminate against transgender patients. (That policy had already been frozen by a federal judge.) It has also expanded health care workers' legal right to refuse to perform services that violate their religious beliefs.
That’s gonna leave a mark.
Over on Twitter, some good moms are screaming at gays that all they want to adopt are perfect, white babies. True, that. And not just little boys, either. They think little girls are dress-up dolls.
“...President Trump is steadily rolling back Obama-era nondiscrimination policies across the entire federal government ...”
Translation: President Trump is steadily rolling back Obamadork the Muslim eunuch quota boy’s first grade ideas which have never worked and never will. He had to because there was no one in Dorkbama’s party who had enough education or history to make even a bad call on anything worth while.
Let the volcanic explosions of homosexual diarrhea begin!
I love this President more every day!
He’s the best there’s ever been.
Bravo. The importance of his re-election becomes clearer every day.
adoptions should be for the good of the child, not a feel-good exercise for the dems identity politics crowd.
Good..about damn time..two homos adopting a boy they only do it for ONE reason and its not to raise him right
The Liberals have taken this issue, and make it an issue of civil rights. So they are saying that homosexuals have a civil right to adopt children. I don’t agree with that but that’s what they are saying.
A child has a civil right to have a mother and a father.
As a Cruz backer my main worry was Trump would be half as conservative as he made himself out to be. When he took the nomination I crossed my fingers and voted for him.
As it turns out he twice as conservative as he made himself out to be and I am ecstatic.
Now, I’m going to disagree with a bit of it. I mean, if you are a gay couple, you should adopt an older child (14 to 18, kids who are unadoptable, because they are older), they shouldn’t adopt babies.
No.
Blessings!
“Good..about damn time..two homos adopting a boy they only do it for ONE reason and its not to raise him right”
And by definition they couldn’t raise him right regardless of their intentions.
It is very good, isn’t it? But this especially makes me worry even more about President Trump’s security.
Like same sex marriage, the term same-sex parents is a logical impossibility. Which of course means jackshit to the Democrats
Men and women get married, men and women have children, and men and women are parents. Obviously when something happens to the spouse of the opposite sex that does not negate the other from being a parent. But it takes a man and a woman to be parents.
We have lost the culture War. The left Drive to destroy the American family is going to be successful. If it isn’t already.
It seems the phrase "right of the woman to choose" can no longer be used because some trans man (woman with workable vagina and parts) was pregnant and said ... declared .... MEN CAN GET PREGNANT TOO (because this thing is accepted as a man)
Thus, it is no longer a right of a woman to choose but now also a man .... except a real man in a real man/woman relationship !
See the mess they've made of everything ?
Screeching in gay, incoming.
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