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Christian foster parents in Massachusetts causes state policy that requires them to confirm And encourage the medical transition of children in their care that are identified as transgoden – or risk losing their foster care licenses.
The lawsuit, submitted on 3 September the names of two families – Joneses and Schrocks – which encourage small children and newborns. Both families say they have lost or risk to lose their licenses due to politics, which requires foster parents to sign agreements to “promote” and “confirm” child’s gender identity or expression “”.
Christian families claim that respect for politics will break their own religious beliefs.
Right: Nick and Audrey Jones, encourage parents who sue Massachusetts due to gender affirmation policy; Left: LGTBK activists collect in support of transgender people on the steps of the New York Hall, 24. October 2018. (Alliance defends freedom / Drev Angerer / Getty Images)
According to the lawsuit, the Massachusetts The Department for Children and Families plan to remove Jones-monthly Foster Course from their home. The child lived with them because she was barely two months old.
Schrocks, who took care of 28 children for six years, that their license was abolished in June after she said they could not abide by politics.
The Alliance defends freedom (ADF), a legal group of religious freedoms representing the families that two households have previously encouraged 35 children and are in good condition before new requirements.
According to the suit, Massachusetts has not previously required foster families to pledge the verbal affirmation of the child’s gender identity. This was changed between 2023. And 2024. year, when the state began to request families to speak and act in certain ways, including confirming a breaking sexual orientation or gender identity.
Two Christian foster families in Massachusetts are at risks that they accelerated their foster care permits, through the state-owned government policy. (AP Photo / Charlie Neibergall)
ADF claims that the state violates the first and fourteenth rights of his and fourteenth amendments and harm children at the time when Massachusetts face foster mother deficiency.
“DCF (Department of Children and Families) is willing to remove young newborns and little ones, without understanding” gender identity “due to human homes due to their Christian beliefs, creating more trauma for the most endangered members of society”
ADF Senior Advisor Johannes Vidmalm-Delphunse said Massachusetts set priority to ideology over the children.
Under Massachusetts policies, foster families in the state must be committed to confirming and encouraging the gender identity and expressing children in their care, in accordance with the new lawsuit. (AP PHOTO / JOSE LUIS MAGANA)
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“Massachusetts’ Care System is in crisis: Commonwealth has more than 1,400 children who are placed with love. Nevertheless Massachusetts puts their own ideological agenda in front of these suffering children,” Vidmalm-Delphunse said Press release.
The case is “especially rude”, because the state has threatened to remove the child who jones “encourage from” the only home he ever knows. “
Department of Health and Human Services Massacusetts and the Department of Children and Families, appointed as defendants in the lawsuit, did not respond immediately to Fox News Digital ‘From a comment request.
Families are looking for the court to block the implementation of the rules, declared unconstitutional and covers their legal costs.
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