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Kansas pro-family advocates are up in arms about a draft of guidelines that would require prospective foster parents to subscribe to LGBT orthodoxy in caring for children who may suffer from gender confusion. In July, the Kansas Department of Children and Families (DCF) released a set of draft guidelines backed by Democrat Gov. Laura Kelly for how the agency’s Foster Care Licensing and Background Checks Division should handle the placement of “lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth.” It calls on such children to only be placed in homes that “respect their identities,” including recognizing a child’s preferred “gender identity” and pronouns, choice of clothes, and a guarantee that foster parents “not try to impose traditional gender roles on the youth.” The Associated Press reported that the draft isn’t final and won’t be a binding directive so much as informal “principles” by which the agency will operate, but conservatives see it as an attempt to ...

The city of Philadelphia will no longer place foster children with parents through the Archdiocese of Philadelphia’s Catholic Social Services (CSS) because the archdiocese won’t place kids with same-sex couples. “A short time ago, the City ceased new foster care child intakes with CSS,” Kenneth Gavin, the archdiocese’s chief communications officer , told LifeSiteNews via email. “CSS is, at its core, an institution founded on faith based-principles. As such, CSS conducts its operations based upon deeply held religious beliefs and principles.” The archdiocesan program “recognizes the vital importance of the foster care program in our city and is proud to provide safe and nurturing foster environments to young people in need,” said Gavin. “Given the longstanding partnership between CSS and the city, we hope to continue our productive relationship with the City of Philadelphia to serve those among us in need.” As same-sex “marriage” was introduced and eventually imposed on th...

Over the past two decades, it has slowly dawned on Christians that the implications of same-sex “marriage” are far greater for those who still believe in the traditional understanding of marriage than even the cynics first thought possible. The politicians, the academics, and the media have reached the collective conclusion that if gay “marriage” is a civil right, those who oppose it are not simply dissenters holding to a two-thousand-year-old tradition, but ugly bigots who deserve to be marginalized for their discriminatory views.  THOUGHT CRIMES Thus, “live and let live” turned into “you will be forced to participate and approve,” with bakers, florists, property owners, and adoption agencies finding themselves to be the targets of gay activists who show a shocking ruthlessness in their enthusiasm for prosecuting supposed thought crimes. None of this will be news to most of you, but the impact of radical reinvention of our social structures is beginning to impact Christ...

In all the debate over gay adoptions and Catholic Charities , the Church’s teaching that gay adoption does “spiritual violence” to the kids has been ignored at best or dismissed as “homophobia” at worst. Instead, we’re told over and over that same-sex parents are wonderful, with hints that they may be even better than normal opposite-sex parents because they take kids who straight parents pass up and even that they appreciate the kids more because they can’t have biological kids of their own. But is that the reality? The National Catholic Register sought out kids of same-sex parents for their take on how it affected them. Charles Mitchell and two brothers were adopted as infants by two men. He called same-sex adoption “a tragic social experiment ” and said, “ homosexuality destroyed a normal way of life for us.” Often, the homosexual parents shown in the media are straight-laced, responsible men. Mitchell said that his “dad” and “uncle” weren’t unlike that. But “it’s not just...

The media may have painted the same-sex adoption fight as a battle over religious freedom. But there’s much more at stake. When Massachusetts wanted to force Catholic Charities ’ adoption services to submit to the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruling about homosexual “marriage,” the Church refused. The media played the story as a simple confrontation over religious rights — as if Catholic Charities’ right to affirm traditional marriage is only defensible in the same way as tribal religions’ rights to get high from peyote buttons. People like Charles Mitchell who grew up with homosexual parents know that the Church’s opposition to the practice isn’t an eccentricity of Catholic belief. It’s a bold, counter-cultural stand in defense of children. Charles Mitchell and two brothers were adopted as infants by two men. He called same-sex adoption “a tragic social experiment” and said, “homosexuality destroyed a normal way of life for us.” Often, the homosexual parents shown in the media ar...

A magistrate has been struck off after making controversial comments on national television.  Richard Page was reprimanded last year after questioning whether a same-sex couple would be the best choice of parents during an adoption case. The 69-year-old Christian, from Headcorn , said it was natural and in the interests of a child to be brought up by a mother and father. Magistrate Richard Page, from Headcorn, has been struck off After being reprimanded by the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office (JCIO) Mr Page, who made the comments behind closed doors, was sent on an equality course. The NHS manager, who has been a magistrate on the Central Kent Bench covering Maidstone and Sevenoaks for 15 years and has also been a foster parent , then took part in a BBC debate on whether Christians were being squeezed out of public life. "There is not sufficient evidence to convince me placing a child in the care of a same-sex couple can be as holistically beneficial to a...

This month will see some of the first gay marriage ceremonies in the UK , signalling the belief in many people's mind that the gay marriage debate is over and that those in favour have won out. But American Professor Robert Lopez , founder of the International Children's Rights Institute, believes that a new debate is now just beginning, over the rights and wrongs of gay and lesbian couples adopting children to raise as their own. Christian Concern quoted him as saying: "There is no 'right to a child' or 'right to be a parent' or 'right to adopt', but a child has a natural born right to a mum and dad." He has a particular investment in this issue, having been raised by two women in a lesbian relationship, and he has come to the UK to make his case. Christian Today spoke to him about his beliefs and why he holds them. CT: Why do you feel the need to go as far as to call it a "right" to have a mother and a father figure? RL: It is a ...

You're trusting these folks to say whether kids should have moms and dads? I've been getting some of the updates from New Mexico about the SOC (same-old-crap) peddled by purveyors of same-sex parenting . It goes like this: A big, powerful, well-funded association with a fancy, imposing name issues a declaration on their "endorsement of same-sex parenting." http://www.lifesitenews.com/ news/new-mexico-groups- promote-same-sex-marriage-as- a-benefit-to-kids-ignoring-t? utm_source=LifeSiteNews.com+ Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign= 6269d2388a-LifeSiteNews_com_ US_Headlines_06_19_2013&utm_ medium=email&utm_term=0_ 0caba610ac-6269d2388a- 397522465 Remember that the gay marriage cases before the Supreme Court last March saw amicus briefs submitted by athletes, corporations, and random Republicans who endorsed this as if they had any relevance in deciding something so heavy: Do children have a right to a mom and dad? Can we just take away their mom or dad ...