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After lawsuits, Mass. drops gender ideology mandate for foster parents
Boston.com ^ | December 20, 2025 | Morgan Rousseau

Posted on 12/20/2025 7:35:52 AM PST by Engraved-on-His-hands

Massachusetts will no longer require prospective foster parents to affirm the sexual orientation and gender identity of the children they foster, following legal challenges and criticism from religious groups.

The change comes after the conservative legal group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) filed a federal lawsuit in September on behalf of two Massachusetts families, who claimed the requirement conflicted with their religious beliefs, according to a Fox News report. One couple had its foster care license revoked, while the other was threatened with revocation.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: adf; childabuse; homosexualagenda; massachusetts; mutilation; socialconservatism; trans; transgender

1 posted on 12/20/2025 7:35:52 AM PST by Engraved-on-His-hands
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

following legal challenges and criticism from religious groups.


shows what just a few warriors can do and should inspire us.


2 posted on 12/20/2025 7:44:22 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands
A good outcome, but not a solution.

Promoting child castration is a crime against humanity and should be a death penalty offense.

3 posted on 12/20/2025 7:47:58 AM PST by Salman (Trump is good, but we need Pinochet. )
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

And yet, people will vote for Democrats.


4 posted on 12/20/2025 8:17:14 AM PST by nwrep
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To: PeterPrinciple

Agreed—as the leftists like to say...

“When we fight we win.”


5 posted on 12/20/2025 8:18:33 AM PST by cgbg (The master is nice only when the dog behaves as expected.)
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Promoting child castration is a crime against humanity and should be a death penalty offense“

+1. I can’t of a worse crime than mutilating children and ruining their lives. Not even 15 and they have to spend the rest of their life with a vandalized body. Awful


6 posted on 12/20/2025 9:04:33 AM PST by iamgalt
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

Good!


7 posted on 12/20/2025 10:29:08 AM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Salman
A good outcome, but not a solution.

Agreed. It's like trying to have a good working relationship with the Devil. He'll cheat you at every turn.

And I guarantee you that they'll find another pretext to disqualify Christian foster parents, without being obvious about it.

8 posted on 12/22/2025 8:35:08 AM PST by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left)
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