{"id":371386,"date":"2018-07-30T03:41:19","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T02:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/lgbt-adoption-is-under-attack-again\/"},"modified":"2018-07-30T03:41:19","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T02:41:19","slug":"lgbt-adoption-is-under-attack-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/lgbt-adoption-is-under-attack-again\/","title":{"rendered":"LGBT Adoption Is Under Attack \u2014 Again"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Couples of the same gender are much more likely to <\/span>adopt and foster kids<\/a> <\/span>than the general population. But <\/span>LGBTQ families<\/a> <\/span>may soon have a harder time doing so.<\/p>\n

Congress just advanced a bill with a rider that would let adoption agencies and state-run foster programs continue to receive federal funds if they discriminate against LGBTQ parents because of their <\/span>religious beliefs<\/a>. As Kevin Matthews recently noted on <\/span>Care2<\/a>, this kind of law is unpopular on its own, so Republican Rep. Robert Aderholt sneakily attached it to a funding bill for government social programs.<\/p>\n

Same-sex couples<\/a> nationwide have only been allowed to adopt kids for a few years. Passing <\/span>marriage equality<\/a> on a federal level helped, but some states held on to LGBTQ adoption bans until the Supreme Court struck down a Mississippi law in 2016.<\/p>\n

So, why are we having the same conversation again today?<\/p>\n

The Trump administration has repeatedly proved itself hostile to <\/span>LGBTQ rights<\/a>. Hate crimes<\/a> and speech persist, especially as bigoted people push back against newfound <\/span>visibility<\/a> of LGBTQ folks.<\/p>\n

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The so-called <\/span>Aderholt Amendment<\/a> continues a long tradition of justifying discrimination under the guise of religious freedom.<\/p>\n

As the <\/span>Washington Post<\/a> <\/span>notes, so-called religious freedom laws have been on the books for decades. Vice President <\/span>Mike Pence<\/a> <\/span>came under fire for the policies he pushed as the former governor of Indiana, but the United States started spelling out protections to guarantee citizens their <\/span>First Amendment<\/a> <\/span>\u201cfree exercise of religion\u201d in the 1960s.<\/p>\n

At that time, the Supreme Court found that a woman should still get unemployment benefits after she was fired for not working on Saturdays because her faith prohibited it.<\/p>\n

Religious groups\u2019 control over laws has varied ever since. In 1993, Congress passed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which <\/span>made it easier to challenge laws based on religious reasons.<\/p>\n

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Couples of the same gender are much more likely to adopt and foster kids than the general population. But LGBTQ families may soon have a harder time doing so. Congress just advanced a bill with a rider that would let adoption agencies and state-run foster programs continue to receive federal funds if they discriminate against […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-371386","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}