Help save Georgia adopted Kids from LGBT activists who want religion gone!
The purpose of the bill is simple: to prevent discrimination against faith-based adoption and foster-care agencies that believe that marriage, the basis of family, is solely between a man and a woman, and that therefore only place children in intact homes with a loving mom and dad. The proposed law prohibits the denial of grant funding to faith-based agencies based on their beliefs on marriage, and provides additional protections.
I know this takes a bit of time and effort, but it is absolutely critical that these lawmakers hear from you today and know that you support this common-sense policy.
It’s simple: moms and dads aren’t interchangeable. We at NOM have been saying that for years. But in the wake of Obergefell, when the Supreme Court illegitimately placed a lie about marriage into our public policy and tried to redefine family and parenting, we’ve been saying something else as well: that the roadway back to restoring traditional marriage in our culture and our law is through policies like this one, that reassert the connection between marriage and children.
That’s why Mr. Signorile says this is NOM’s plan. Of course, in his HuffPo hit-piece he says we’re trying to “chip away at marriage rights for queer people” - but Mr. Signorile misses the elephant in the room. Marriage is the union of one man and one woman, period. That is what it intrinsically is and it is that relationship that has undergirded civilization since the beginning of time. In light of the Supreme Court's illegitimate ruling, what we’re really trying to do now is incrementally restore the rights of children that were chipped away by the redefinition of marriage, and incrementally recover the public purpose and inherent good of marriage which the Supreme Court and LGBT activists trammeled in the name of “equality.”
For millennia, before our own confused age, marriage was always seen as an institution about the needs and well-being of children, rather than about the desires and whims of adults. The state’s interest in marriage stemmed from this connection between marriage and the unique life-giving potential of the union of man and woman, and the good secured in society by moms and dads who come together to produce a child uniting to one another and to that child for life.
All that the Keep Faith in Adoption and Foster Care Act does is reaffirm what most people throughout the world today believe, and what the vast majority of people in history have believed: that marriage is about bringing man and woman together for the good of the spouses, the good of the children, and the good of society, and that this purpose stems from the unique union of man and woman as God created them.
It is crucial that you speak to these lawmakers today to affirm your support for SB 375. Use the button below to sign an email to send to the leadership of the Georgia legislature!
Just last month, a bill amending the adoption law in George was stripped of all provisions protecting faith-based agencies and individuals and their right to free exercise and conscience, because Governor Deal threatened veto if such provisions were included. SB 375 is a way to implement those protections, but the Governor is going to work against it: and that’s why your lawmakers need to know you’re supporting them in this effort.
It might not be easy to get this bill passed; but this is a critical part of the plan that NOM has been promoting since even before Obergefell to protect marriage in law and culture. Restoring marriage as the union of one man and one woman requires these incremental steps to shift the focus of the institution back to the welfare of kids who deserve and do best with a mom and a dad.
I hope you’ll take time to contact these lawmakers today, and please spread the word to all your family and friends, encouraging them to do the same.
