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State Bars Catholic Couple From Fostering
Due To Traditional Beliefs About Marriage
And Gender

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Posted By: Beardo, 8/8/2023 3:36:51 PM

A Catholic couple is suing Massachusetts state officials after allegedly being told they were unable to foster children due to their religious beliefs about marriage and sexuality, according to court documents. Mike and Catherine “Kitty” Burke went through the process to get certified to begin fostering children in 2022, but were reportedly deemed unfit by the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families (DCF) after a series of home visits, according to court documents. (snip) The Burkes had several home visits, but found that most of the questions pertained to their beliefs on gender, sexuality and marriage, according to the lawsuit.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Dignitary Protection 8/8/2023 3:45:34 PM (No. 1530438)
As a Catholic and conservative, this pisses me off!
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Reply 2 - Posted by: john56 8/8/2023 3:55:46 PM (No. 1530445)
I can see the Howie Carr column already for press at the Boston Herald.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: HonestDon 8/8/2023 4:06:29 PM (No. 1530453)
God bless 'em! I hope they raise plenty of money for legal expenses.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Blackbird 8/8/2023 4:17:43 PM (No. 1530465)
OUTRAGEOUS! Here is a so-called govt. agency which needs to be sued big time, and most employees fired outright.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: formerNYer 8/8/2023 4:28:14 PM (No. 1530472)
If we had a congress with cahoonies they would cut off all federal monies being returned to the state for clearly violating the 1st amendment.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: planetgeo 8/8/2023 4:51:18 PM (No. 1530489)
Pretty much all government agencies (federal, state, and local) have been completely taken over by leftists/LGBTQ fanatics. They are going into overdrive sticking it to normals in all their policies. All normals need to rise up and fight them tooth and nail. We cannot allow this kind of insanity to continue.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: jasmine 8/8/2023 5:41:54 PM (No. 1530531)
Foster kids come from homes where parents are deemed unfit due to violence, mental illness, drug abuse, poverty, sexual abuse, incompetence or other life-changing events that disrupt their lives in ways from which they may never recover. The best chance these children have to live normal lives requires placement in a loving home where the adults are capable of nurturing the child. The last thing the children need is to be placed with adults trying to resolve their own issues.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: skacmar 8/8/2023 5:55:45 PM (No. 1530543)
So Social Services thinks it is better to place a child in a home where the foster/adoptive parents are willing to mutilate or allow affirm possible mental illness issues rather than nurture and help address possible issues. Should we affirm anorexia if someone deems themself too fat? Should a parent affrim "cutting" if a child says it is the only way to relieve their "pain and trauma induced stress"? NO! The child is treated for an illness. The same should go for so called gender dysphoria which usually turns out to be depression and wanting to be accepted. Supportive and nurturing parents can do that. Activist parents can not.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: JunkYardDog 8/8/2023 6:18:59 PM (No. 1530558)
What about John F. Kennedy? Wasn't he a Roman Catholic? Imagine JFK today hearing that Catholics cannot be foster parents because of their 'beliefs'. This is some prime commie propaganda right here.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: LadyHen 8/8/2023 6:37:52 PM (No. 1530568)
fta: “We were absolutely devastated to learn that Massachusetts would rather children sleep in the hallways of hospitals than let us welcome children in need into our home.” --- The government only cares about children insofar as they can turn them into little mindless Democrat voting automatons or sound bites. In fact they have a vested interest in producing damaged children, hence all this focus on destroying children with this "gender" nonsense." The more damaged the children are by mental illness, abuse, enforced stupidity via failing schools, and general neglect, the more likely they will see themselves as perpetual wards of the state and those always vote Democrat.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Venturer 8/8/2023 7:27:28 PM (No. 1530602)
This is a bizarro world of opposites. Others should be turned down because they don't believe in gender or sexuality and marriage. But---what the hell it's Massachusetts. Land of the liberal yankee's
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Reply 12 - Posted by: SALady 8/8/2023 7:40:36 PM (No. 1530611)
Satan must be rolling on the floor laughing his tail off at how easy it has been to destroy our culture!!! All he had to do was get the Demon-Rats to do his bidding, and the rest was easy...
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Reply 13 - Posted by: NeonVortex 8/8/2023 10:38:54 PM (No. 1530688)
So let me get this straight. They're deemed unfit because they're not degenerates.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: DVC 8/8/2023 10:59:18 PM (No. 1530694)
Normality and sanity is now illegal, at least as far as for children that are unfortunate enough to have fallen under the control of the state.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: columba 8/8/2023 11:40:16 PM (No. 1530712)
A Roman Catholic couple has been told that they are unable to hoster children in Massachusetts because of their religion.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: Lawsy0 8/9/2023 1:30:39 AM (No. 1530756)
So move! There are other states. Suing a gov agency is one thing. I was thinking about something a little more volatile.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: mifla 8/9/2023 5:27:49 AM (No. 1530811)
If you don't agree with Big Brother, you pay the price. You will do as you are told or you will regret it.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: skacmar 8/9/2023 7:49:39 AM (No. 1530878)
Social services wants activist parents, not foster parents.
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