If you want to open your hearts and homes to kids that life has given a bad hand, you WILL be required to accept what the Biden administration and Democrats establishment’s State Religion: Transgenderism.
Just When I Thought I Was Out, They Pull Me Back In!
If you don’t, you’re just the same oppressors of children as the Parents from whom they were ripped. After all, “Childism” (the bastard son of Critical Race Theory) DEMANDS that all Parents areoOppressors unless you discard your own personal religious beliefs and whole-hearted embrace this new Transgender State Religion whose High Priest is now Joe Biden (as it IS his Dept. of Health and Human Services monastery that has decreed thusly to be part of its Sacred Texts).
I brought this up there: Shot Across The Bow – Will NH DCYF Take a Knee To The Biden Administration? – that linked here: Lack of ‘Affirmation’ Is Child Abuse: New Biden Rule Applies Transgender Standard to Foster Care:
Transgender orthodoxy may soon become a litmus test for parenthood, according to the logic of a new policy working its way through the Department of Health and Human Services under President Joe Biden.
A new rule in HHS’ Administration for Children and Families would apply the idea that any lack of “affirmation” constitutes a form of child abuse to foster care placements. Once that idea takes root in foster care, child protective services agencies might start applying it more broadly.
I sent an email to DCYF and to NH DHHS Deputy Chief Legal Counsel John Martin back on 11/30/23. I’ve heard but crickets from him on this (I figured that if ANYONE would know, he would, being a Legal matter of great concern), but the other DCYF workers said that they hadn’t heard of this before and that they would start, informally, asking around. Thus far, they can’t find anyone that knows anything about this.
However, I was not the only one seeing this and not the only one negatively reacting to it. The Washington Examiner reported that 19 States Attorney Generals have decided that “This will not pass!”
Pushing back against the Biden administration’s radical identity politics, 19 state attorneys general and numerous conservative and religious organizations last week stood up for religious liberty and for long-standing, effective child adoption services. Good. The Biden proposal at issue is pernicious.
As succinctly put by Advancing American Freedom , a think tank founded by former Vice President Mike Pence, the proposal “would violate the religious freedom of foster care families and ultimately make the shortage of families working within the foster care system worse.” …
The regulation would put children in charge: No matter the child’s biology or anatomy, his or her “self-identified sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression” would rule the day. Adoption and foster care organizations that do not agree to be “trained” — that is, refuse to be indoctrinated — to comply with the “name and pronouns that align with [children’s] gender identity,” no matter how fleeting or ill-considered, will be banned from providing services to homeless children labeled “LGBTQI+.” If readers cross-refer supporting documents cited for the proposed, it is clear that the required “support” presumes a bias in favor of chemical and surgical transitioning procedures.
One of the DCYF wonks told me that almost every Foster Parent family in the North Country would immediately quit. I said that we’d be among them. And yes, TMEW and I were first Foster Parents to the Grandson and THEN formally adopted him. If this new Rule were in place then (not even a Law, just a RULE made up by unassailable, unelected, and smug ideologically driven bureaucrats, who by the dint of receiving a Government paycheck, are making themselves our Overlords any time they wish), we would have never have had the chance to have Fostered him much less Adopt him.
More:
As the attorneys general also write , the religious-liberty implications of the proposed rule are profound: “This proposed rule seeks to accomplish indirectly what the Supreme Court found unconstitutional just two years ago: remove faith-based providers from the foster care system if they will not conform their religious beliefs on sexual orientation and gender identity.” And: “The proposed rule is unconstitutional because it discriminates against individuals and organizations of faith who want to serve children in the foster care system. The proposed rule also unconstitutionally forces [so-called gender-affirming] speech on foster providers.”
Since the article didn’t mention which ones, I asked Google’s Bard. I dryly note that since Gov. Sununu made “gender identity” a new protected class, New Hampshire is not one of them:
- Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall
- Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor
- Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich
- Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge
- Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr
- Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita
- Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt
- Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron
- Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry
- Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch
- Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey
- Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen
- Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers
- Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost
- Oklahoma Attorney General John O’Connor
- South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson
- South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg
- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton
- Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes
So folks, yet another question to be asked of Kelly Ayotte, running for Governor AND a former NH AG: what would she do (WWKD?)!
Free Speech, anyone? These Trans-Authoritarians view it as an obstacle to be broken and shattered instead of a pre-existing Right from God and Nature’s God; something that should be held to be beyond them. However, as they are now considering themselves to be the moral descendants of the Divine Right of Kings, they merely “sniff” at such a legal and Constitutional rebuke to their actions.
Now, an earlier RTK put into Counselor Martin demanded the complete DCYF Organization Chart:
The complete organizational (hierarchical) structure of DCYF to include:
- Name of a given staff member
- Title of that staff member
- Name and title to whom they report (as applicable)
- Name and title of those staff members that report to that given staff member (as applicable).
He did respond, and I have looked at the information. However, I haven’t had, yet, the opportunity to use it. Given the “crickets,” I guess I will be sending this out to a number of DCYF employees to stir up the nest.
