A Christian mother is suing the state of Oregon over its alleged refusal to allow her to adopt children over her conservative views on gender.
"I emailed her and told her I couldn't do that because of my faith, and then we had a phone call, and because I wouldn't take a child for cross-sex hormone injections, I was basically told that I'm ineligible to adopt in the state of Oregon," she said.
Bates claimed in the lawsuit that compulsive training meetings with Oregon's Resource and Adoptive Family Training, or RAFT, urged potential parents to"use a child’s preferred pronouns, take a child to affirming events like Pride parades, or sign the child up for dangerous pharmaceutical interventions like puberty blockers and hormone shots.
“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,” he said. “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.
ADF describes itself as"an alliance-building, non-profit legal organization committed to protecting religious freedom, free speech, parental rights, and the sanctity of life.”
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