First Lady Melania Trump is spearheading a “Fostering the Future” initiative to reform and improve our foster care system.
Yesterday, at the White House, the president signed an executive order to increase resources and investment for children in the system and those “aging out.” That’s good for these kids.
Trumps’ executive order did something else, too. Democrat-controlled states are refusing to allow parents to foster children unless the parents agree to affirm the child’s gender identity, seek hormone treatment and deforming surgeries for the “trans” child, etc. The parents are told they cannot talk to the child about religious views on any of these issues. States like Massachusetts have ruled that Christian parents who wanted to foster are “unfit” unless they agree to the LGBTQ agenda.
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President Trump knows this is unacceptable and he is taking action. The executive order directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to work with the Director of the White House Faith Office and the Director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs to “take appropriate action” to deal with these policies that prohibit qualified parents and organizations from fostering based on “their sincerely held religious beliefs or moral convictions.”
He also ordered appropriate action to ensure partnerships increase between agencies, faith-based organizations and houses of worship to serve foster families.
When the Left is in power, every day, thousands of people come to work in the federal government dedicated to undermining religious liberty, discriminating against Christianity, promoting LGBTQ lies and pushing radical secularism. When conservatives are in power, the actions are pro-life, pro-family and pro religious liberty.
LifeNews.com Note: Gary Bauer is the president of American Values, a national pro-family organization and is the former president of the Family Research Council. Bauer ran for the Republican nomination for president and appears frequently on radio and television programs.
