When Liz Wheeler says California persecutes Christians, she swears she's not exaggerating.
“California goes after Christians in the worst way. … They use children to persecute Christians who live by Biblical values and Catholic doctrine,” she says.
California now Senate Bill 407Introduced by state Sen. Scott Wiener, an “enthusiastically pro-LGBTQIA politician,” the bill would require foster parents to “be safe, even if it goes against the foster parent's strongly held religious or moral beliefs.” The law requires children to affirm their chosen gender identity and sexual orientation, even if they are children. I have values,” says Liz.
If this language alone did not already identify Christian families, the group most likely to adopt, a new directive from the Department of Social Services makes it clear who is in its crosshairs. Become.
The directive, issued last November, “takes it a step further and interprets the bill to actually add something even worse to the already bad language,” Riz explains.
According to the directive, foster parents must not only “clearly declare that they support the idea that children have the ability to change their gender identity,” but also “address cultural issues regarding the expression of sexual orientation and gender identity.” “They must be trained in sensitivity and educated in the best possible way.” Practices that provide care to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning children. ”
Liz calls the compulsory education course a Marxist “re-education camp for Christians.”
Still, things get worse.
The Directive also states that “Each resource family shall protect the personal rights of its children or non-minor dependents and ensure that they have the ability, ability and willingness to respect and honor the child's identity, regardless of their own values and beliefs. “We must have it.”
How does the state determine whether a foster family can meet these requirements?
“There is an interview process the state requires to license foster families, which includes a “rigorous questionnaire,'' Liz said.
The interview is designed to “help establish a safe, accepting, and affirming home by asking direct and open-ended questions to avoid further trauma to children and non-minor dependents who may be placed with them.” “Questions about a family's ability, willingness, and ability to care for LGBTQ+ children and non-minor dependents are designed to assess the family's ability, willingness, and ability to provide,” she explains, calling the interview ” It's called a “litmus test.”
Potential foster parents who refuse to take a pledge to “facilitate the transition of gender-confused children” will be barred from the system.
“This is completely, 100% illegal,” Liz says. “That violates the U.S. Constitution.”
She points to the 2021 incidentFulton vs. City of PhiladelphiaThe Supreme Court unanimously ruled that petitioners Catholic Social Services' First Amendment rights would be denied by refusing to renew the agency's contract unless the city of Philadelphia agreed to allow same-sex couples to become foster parents. The court ruled that the rights of the law had been violated. This is a violation of Catholic society. doctrine.
Liz hopes and hopes that this same ruling will apply to this damning directive by the California Department of Human Services.
Unfortunately, even in the best-case scenario, “it would take years to get through the court system.” In other words, it is the children who suffer during this time.
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