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Bill making it legal to ban gays & lesbians from adopting passes in OklahomaBy Alex Bollinger · Friday, April 27, 2018
The Oklahoma House passed a bill yesterday that would allow adoption and foster care agencies to discriminate against parents whose lives violate the sincerely held religious beliefs of the agency.
The Adoption Protection Act passed the GOP-controlled house in a 60-26 vote. A similar bill has already passed the Oklahoma Senate.
Supporters of the bill stressed that the states foster care system is overloaded.
While most people would think this is an argument in favor of maximizing the number of available parents to take children in, supporters say that religious agencies will take their ball and go home instead of placing kids in decent homes that violate the agencies sincerely held religious beliefs.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2018/04/bill-making-legal-ban-gays-lesbians-adopting-passes-oklahoma/
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)And give the republicans cover as they outlaw gay folks all together!
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)shenmue
(38,506 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)are the new Jim Crow laws.
Mariana
(14,861 posts)Desegregation violated many white Christians' "sincerely held religious beliefs". You're right, history is repeating itself, with a different minority group.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)What goes around, comes around I guess.
IluvPitties
(3,181 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)(outlaws Gay adoption in Oklahoma, soon nationwide)
I thought democrats were smarter than this, damn.
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)alright
ooky
(8,929 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)As a Christian I believe in that doctrine 100%
ooky
(8,929 posts)apparently to establish a Theocracy and they are willing to trample the Constitution to do it.
Garrett78
(10,721 posts)Let's just have 'red' US and 'blue' US, or whatever you want to call it. But, of course, that's unrealistic and unfair for a lot of reasons (people should be able to live where they want to live, people can't afford to up and move, etc.).
Still, Oklahoma's legislature passing such a bill and Democrats voting power over principle in red states/districts are precisely the sorts of things that make one think we need to just part ways. Of course, 'red' America wouldn't survive without being heavily subsidized by 'blue' America.