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ck4829

(35,070 posts)
Fri Nov 1, 2019, 05:43 PM Nov 2019

Why do conservative Christians even need regulations to stop adoptions by LGBT families?

The Trump administration is moving forward with a proposed regulation that will allow taxpayer-funded adoption agencies to refuse placement into LGBT families over religious objections.

The Department of Health & Human Services went public on Friday with the regulation, which will undo an Obama-era policy prohibiting discrimination discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation among federal grantees.

The proposed regulation, which will have far-reaching implications, was immediately was criticized by LGBT rights supporters.

Julie Kruse, director of federal policy at Family Equality Council, said in a statement the policy was “outrageous,” especially at the start of National Adoption Month.

Read more: https://www.washingtonblade.com/2019/11/01/trump-admin-to-allow-adoption-agencies-to-refuse-placement-in-lgbt-homes/


I mean since they're the silent majority, they should be able to just adopt all the children out there and then children would never have to experience the unbridled horror of being adopted by a loving gay or lesbian couple.

Then again, it must be a difference in ideology and philosophy... I, you as well I am sure, consider children aging out of foster care and being thrown out into the world at 18 to be a policy failure.

They consider the existence of families with GLBT individuals in them to be the failure instead.
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MFM008

(19,808 posts)
1. because they are hypocritical asshats
Fri Nov 1, 2019, 05:49 PM
Nov 2019

that support a monstrous adulterous lying PIG for president instead.

SharonAnn

(13,772 posts)
7. They want Federal Funding and are supposed to abide by Federal regulations. They want the $ without
Fri Nov 1, 2019, 07:21 PM
Nov 2019

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
4. All right you gays: Pay your taxes on time and in full
Fri Nov 1, 2019, 05:58 PM
Nov 2019

But you don't get the benefit of tax disbursements because some uptight assholes don't like you. Your taxes can fund an adoption agency, but it won't serve you or your kind. Ain't that America somethin' to see?

roamer65

(36,745 posts)
9. I look at it this way.
Fri Nov 1, 2019, 07:48 PM
Nov 2019

Since I have been disenfranchised by this country all of my life, I don’t owe one god damn ounce of loyalty to it.

I got a nice tax cut and I am going to start sheltering more income to drive the tax bill even lower. I’d drive it to zero if I could. If the government wants my money, it will have to pay me interest to get it. I am more than willing to turn this into economic warfare.

SWBTATTReg

(22,114 posts)
5. Seems like the rump admin. is just proving themselves to be the bigots we all know they are...
Fri Nov 1, 2019, 06:01 PM
Nov 2019

bigotry, in full living color. Disgusting. No one should allow this kind of treatment. No one.

stopbush

(24,396 posts)
6. So sick of the fucking Xians. All of them.
Fri Nov 1, 2019, 06:36 PM
Nov 2019

Their make-believe is the root of 90% of what’s wrong with this country.

roamer65

(36,745 posts)
8. A lot of these child molesting fake Xians want the kids as foster kids.
Fri Nov 1, 2019, 07:24 PM
Nov 2019

They don’t want them adopted, they want the effing paycheck from them as fosters.

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,853 posts)
10. Evangelical Christians think they must "save" others...
Fri Nov 1, 2019, 08:00 PM
Nov 2019

... which often means they're authoritarians, trying to FORCE their beliefs on others. It's a type of Christianity that's more judgemental of others than themselves, which would put more emphasis on passages such as "And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?"

White evangelical Christians voted for, and still strongly support, Donald Trump. Same for the right-wing authoritarians in this country, our version of the Nazis, because there's a lot of crossover between evangelicals and right-wing authoritarians. They see Trump as a "strong leader" who will never compromise with their more tolerant and "Godless" enemies, the liberals.

They won't recognize themselves as bad people because they're just trying to save others from "eternal damnation" in their fucked up minds.

roamer65

(36,745 posts)
11. That is because most "Christian" fundamental cultists believe in "eternal security".
Fri Nov 1, 2019, 08:07 PM
Nov 2019

After you go to the altar for your “fake Jesus”, you can basically treat others like shit forever cuz Jesus “loves” you and you’re going to “heaven”.

A “heaven” full of people like Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Jim Bakker? No thanks, I’d rather go to hell.

They are now legends in their own minds, for their “fake Jesus”.

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,853 posts)
12. Yeah, just ask for forgiveness...
Fri Nov 1, 2019, 08:12 PM
Nov 2019

... after you lie and commit evil acts.

Meanwhile, direct others to the same cult. Preacher needs more tax-free donations.

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