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Single Mother Files Lawsuit After State Allegedly Denies Adoption Due To Her Christian Beliefs
[DAILYCALLER] A single mother of five filed a lawsuit against the Oregon Department of Human Services Monday for allegedly denying her adoption application due to her religious beliefs, according to a blurb from Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF).Jessica Bates, a single mother of five, who also lost her husband in a car crash six years prior, attempted to apply with the department to adopt children in 2022, according to the blurb. Bates’ application was allegedly denied because her Christian beliefs would not allow her to "respect, accept, and support ... the sexual orientation, gender identity, [and] gender expression" of the children in her care as the department’s adoption regulations require, according to the lawsuit. "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, director of the ADF Center for Conscience Initiatives, said in the blurb. "The government can’t exclude certain communities of faith from foster care and adoption services because the state doesn’t like their particular religious beliefs." Related: Alliance Defending Freedom: 2022-07-18 Federal Court Halt Biden's Transgender Insanity In Schools In Major Victory For Republicanss Alliance Defending Freedom: 2022-07-11 U.S. District Court Orders Law School To Rescind No-Contact Orders Issued Against Christian Legal Society Faculty Advisor Alliance Defending Freedom: 2021-06-22 Bill Barr: Public Schools Are Becoming Unconstitutional ‘Secular-Progressive Madrassas' Posted by: Fred 2023-04-04 |
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