Something Is Missing!

The feds are on the case...

That now brings worry and fear to the populace, the latest witch hunt is Oregon!

Federal government probes Oregon in faith-based push against LGBTQ+ foster policy

“We want to roll out the red carpet and welcome faith-based families to participate in our child welfare system,” said an official with the U.S. Health and Human Services Department 

Oregon Capital Chronicle

By: Shaanth Nanguneri

September 30, 2025

The Trump administration on Tuesday opened an investigation into a contested Oregon policy of requiring prospective adoptive and foster parents to affirm their child’s gender identity, spelling uncertainty for hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding for the state. 

The U.S Health and Human Services Department’s Administration for Children and Families notified the Oregon Department of Human Services of the move in a letter signed by Acting Assistant Secretary Andrew Gradison, who pledged in August that “federal funds will not be used to poison the minds of the next generation or advance dangerous ideological agendas.” The letter seeks from Oregon “information that can shed light on your current policies.”

But there is something missing?

Gradison on Tuesday wrote to the human services department that he had been made aware of a case in which a woman was denied the ability to provide a child a home because she would not affirm a “hypothetical child’s gender identity.” He also alleged that failure to comply with the policy has counted as evidence against families when it comes to the removal of children from their custody. 

“If true, these developments are deeply troubling, clearly contrary to the purpose of child welfare programs, and in direct violation of First Amendment protections,” Gradison wrote. “As you know, I have the responsibility of monitoring how federal funds are used and ensuring that federal law is upheld.”

But they are missing someone.

LGBTQ+ advocates say such policies are necessary to protect children who are overrepresented in the foster care system, pointing to research showing the harm of conversion therapy and living in a family not accepting of one’s identity. But the requirement has long drawn the ire of conservatives who cite the nation’s history of faith-based orphanages as a solution to providing homes for the hundreds of thousands of children in American foster care. 

It is the children who are missing!

The state’s affirmation policy, however, came under fire in 2023 from a legal challenge by a Christian mother of five from Malheur County, Jessica Bates, backed by an Arizona-based conservative Christian legal advocacy group, the Alliance Defending Freedom. 

I'll tell you what they are defending... the right to bully, harass, and to deny children of their right to define themselves!

The feds are also going after...

The memo comes alongside an investigation into Massachusetts, which has a similar policy to a rule Oregon adopted in 2018 mandating prospective foster parents to respect, accept and support their child’s sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression and spiritual beliefs, next to a list of other protected categories. 

In the Republican drive to force religion down everyone's throats. But children have rights! The right not to have religion forced down their throats by adoptive parents!