Many states have laws requiring adoptive parents to let the child decide if they are LGBTQ+ or not. These states realize that the child has rights and parents cannot override those rights.
CBS NewsBy Louisa MollerOctober 9, 2025A couple from Woburn, Massachusetts has lost their license to foster children after they refused to sign a gender affirming policy form from the Department of Children and Families (DCF).Lydia and Heath Marvin have three kids in their teens, but they have fostered eight different children under the age of 4 since 2020. Their most recent foster child was a baby with complex medical needs who stayed with them for 15 months."Our Christian faith, it really drives us toward that. James says that true undefiled religion is to care for the fatherless," said Heath.The couple said they were prepared to care for more foster children until DCF pulled their license to foster in April.
But it more than just the rights for LGBTQ+ children it is also the right for the child to reject the religion of the adoptive parents!
That's because the Marvins refused to sign the agency's LGBTQIA+ Non-Discrimination Policy because of their Christian faith. Starting in 2022, the policy said that foster families must affirm the LGBTQIA+ identity of foster children.
You know darn well that the religious-right is grooming this case to go to the Supreme Court.
The case that the was heard before this Supreme Court this week involved a therapist who wants the right to tell minors that they damned and going to hell! If the court rules in favors of the therapist so she force therapy on the children and religious parents can force their religion on the adaptive child. That would override the child's religious freedom!
I don't know about you but I'm in favors of child's rights to self-determination.
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