Winner of the Martin Luther King Jr. Spirit Award, 2016.
Posted on 10/11/2020 7:21:04 PM PDT by karpov
From Judge Salvador Mendoza, Jr.'s opinion yesterday in Blais v. Hunter (E.D. Wash.):
James and Gail Blais hope to foster, and eventually adopt, their great-granddaughter, H.V. After H.V. was born [in September 2019], concerns about her welfare arose. The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare ("IDHW") ultimately removed H.V. from her birth parents' care and later reached out to the Blaises about possibly fostering or adopting her. The Blaises expressed an interest in caring for H.V., so IDHW asked the Washington Department of Children, Youth, and Families ("Department") to evaluate the Blaises for a foster care license.
To address the needs of foster children who are developing, discovering, or identifying themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ+), the Department has promulgated several regulations and policies for Department staff and foster parents providing foster care services. The Blaises are devout Seventh-day Adventists. Following a home study, the Department denied the Blaises' foster care license application. Their answers to a series of hypotheticals involving a foster child who might in the future develop or identify as LGBTQ+ did not conform to Department regulations and policy…. [The questions were:]
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Ridiculous...
Headline misleading in that sub headline notes a Federal judge ruled in the grandparents favor on First Amendment grounds.
How long until children are taken away from their parents because the parents hold the wrong views? The Left despises free speech, except for itself.
Appeal this unlawful decision.
At the current rate of things, I expect this to happen in the next 10-15 years if things don’t change.
The camel’s nose is in the tent, so I wouldn’t be surprised.
For everyone here who b1tches about not enough good people wanting to foster
Heres why they cant
If you also have guns, you cant
Unconstitutional violation of the 1st Amendment and the free exercise thereof clause.
“Headline misleading in that sub headline notes a Federal judge ruled in the grandparents favor on First Amendment grounds.
This never stopped anyone of the Headline readers from pontificating purely on a misleading Headline without ever bothering to read the article itself.
Idaho? We’re toast. Stick a fork in the US.
What we see here is just preliminary softening up.
State-mandated child abuse.
Once, and not too long ago, the LGBT+ “community” said that all that they wanted was to be left alone. LGBT+ cannot coexist with sanity.
The Foster Care people said they couldn’t have the child. The judge said...like hell they can’t.
Agenda? What agenda? You must be one of them conspiracy theorists.
Winner of the Martin Luther King Jr. Spirit Award, 2016.
To be raised by the state or sold to pedophiles by the state? I think the way things are going it’s eventually going to be the latter.
Just an incidental observation, but how old would you have to be to be the child’s GREAT GRANDPARENT? Is this one of these dysfunctional promiscuous family mindsets where the daughters have illegitimate children at 15 generation after generation? (I’ve known a few of these and they are rife with criminality and suboptimal outcomes.)
Idaho....
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