Vermont Drops Requirement That Foster Parents Embrace LGBT Ideology, Restores Revoked Licenses
Vermont has adopted new guidance eliminating a requirement that foster parents embrace LGBT ideology and has restored the licenses of foster parents who had theirs revoked over their religious beliefs, ending several lawsuits brought by Alliance Defending Freedom and the Center for American Liberty. The policy change represents a significant religious liberty victory for Christian foster families who argued the state was forcing them to choose between their faith convictions and their calling to care for vulnerable children. The reversal comes as similar battles over religious accommodation in foster care and adoption play out across multiple states.
Read Full Story at Christian PostReligion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
— James 1:27
The resolution in Vermont affirms what Scripture has always taught: caring for orphans is one of the highest callings of the faith, and those who answer that call should not be forced to abandon the convictions that inspired it.