Oregon denies adoption after woman refuses to back gender ideology, homosexuality

Catholic News Agency ^ | April 6, 2023 | Tyler Arnold

[Morgana]

An Oregon woman filed a federal lawsuit against the state’s Department of Human Services after she was denied the opportunity to adopt a child because she refused to express support for gender ideology and homosexuality.

The woman, Jessica Bates, filed an application to become certified to adopt a child from the Oregon foster care system. However, to obtain the certification, a person must agree to “respect, accept and support the … sexual orientation, gender identity [and] gender expression … of a child or young adult” who is placed in the home, according to the state’s policy.

Although Bates promised to love and treat any child as her own, she told the certification officer that she “would not support their lifestyle or encourage any behavior related to their sexual orientation or gender identity or expression” if it went against her religious beliefs. The certification officer asked whether she would use a child’s preferred pronouns if he or she ever identified as transgender and whether she would assist a child with transitioning his or her gender through hormone therapy. Bates said she would not.

Because her stance did not comply with DHS regulations, her application was denied. A spokesperson for the state agency was not immediately available for comment Thursday.

Bates, who is receiving pro bono legal representation from Alliance Defending Freedom, argued in her lawsuit that this requirement infringes on her First Amendment rights to freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and freedom of religion.

“Oregon’s policy amounts to an ideological litmus test: people who hold secular or ‘progressive’ views on sexual orientation and gender identity are eligible to participate in child welfare programs, while people of faith with religiously informed views are disqualified because they don’t agree with the state’s orthodoxy,” ADF Senior Counsel Jonathan Scruggs said in a statement.

[Alberta's Child]

The woman, Jessica Bates, filed an application to become certified to adopt a child from the Oregon foster care system.

Then find some other private mechanism for adopting a child without going through a Nazi government office.

[paltz]

So Catholic adoption agencies can’t deny a gay couple a child but government foster care can deny adoptions to Catholics (or anyone else) who doesn’t support transgenderism for minors.

[Alberta's Child]

The “Catholic adoption agencies” you describe are the ones that get paid or subsidized by the state for their foster care and adoption support. If an agency doesn’t take taxpayer money they aren’t subject to those Nazi rules.

Catholics adopted orphans for hundreds of years without any government involvement. Some religious groups still do this.

[Bob434]

i think though what might happen in the very near future is that some kid adopted from an independent catholic organization, one that doesn’t accept federal moneys- thinks he or she is the wrong sex, complains to authorities that their adoptive parents won’t allow them to transition- and the independent adoption agency will eventually get sued and bankrupted most likely for not ‘examining whether the parents woudl accept it if their child claimed to be trans or lgbtq before they allowed the child to be adopted’

There is a war going on right now- and the transgender movement is attempting, and succeeding it seems, to give children the power over their real, and adopted parents- they are trying to take control out of the hands of parents, and charge them with ‘hate crimes’ if they try to say no to their mixed up mentally ill child or foster child or adopted child if they want to pretest they are another sex

The hounds of hell have been released, and are wreaking havoc across the nation-

[Twotone]

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