Illinois Purges Social Workers And Foster Families Who Don’t ‘Facilitate’ Transgenderism

[mountaineer]

Illinois Purges Social Workers And Foster Families Who Don’t ‘Facilitate’ Transgenderism
Illinois’s child welfare agency has proclaimed staff must ‘affirm’ gender ideology and ‘facilitate’ LGBT identities for kids—or be fired.
Mary Hasson
May 30, 2017

The science-deniers are running the LGBTQ show over at the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), and dissenters will not be tolerated.

The department’s new “enhanced” policies promoting the “well-being of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer/Questioning (LGBTQ) children and youth in the Department’s care” ratchet in one direction only: encouraging children towards LGBTQ identities. DCFS has drawn a rainbow-colored line in the sand, announcing it “will not tolerate exposing LGBTQ children and youth to staff/providers who are not supportive of children and youths’ right to self-determination of sexual/gender identity.”

Let’s repeat that: the state of Illinois will not tolerate “exposing” the vulnerable children in its care to people who believe human beings are either male or female and cannot “become” the other. No matter that sexual difference is a scientific fact, or that billions of sane people across the world acknowledge it.

Illinois has decreed its own “truth” about the human person and served notice that it will muzzle the speech and religious beliefs of employees, caregivers, professionals, and cooperating agencies who think otherwise. Here’s the story.
Let’s Look at the Policies In Detail

On May 6, 2017, the director of Illinois’ child welfare agency (DCFS), George Sheldon, “signed enhanced department procedures” setting “mandatory minimum standards for LGBTQ children under its authority (See Appendix K in this May 11, 2017 document. Quoted passages in this article are from Appendix K unless otherwise specified).

Of course, everyone supports ensuring the safety and wellbeing of all children, but the devil is in the details. The new DCFS policies are less about safety and wellbeing and more about using state power to “overrule” basic, empirical (and common sense) truths about human beings and to replace them with ideological assertions that validate adult feelings rather than benefit children.

Designed with American Civil Liberties Union assistance, the policies are problematic not only for the vulnerable children in state care but also for the kin, foster families, caseworkers, volunteers, and others trying to assist them.  ...

Full story with internal links at The Federalist.

[Joe Wooten]

I have GOT to get out of this really screwed up state!!!

Anyone want a 40 yr old house on 5.8 wooded acres with a big pole barn (old airplane hangar) for the price I want to sell for??????

[Hondo69]

Purge is an interesting word, so is putsch.

[INVAR]

Have this government agency FIRE people over their religious beliefs.  That will be rich, a nice litmus test to see just how far gone the First Amendment actually is and to see if a government agency can COMPEL you to violate your faith and morality.

Second, would be an interesting problem to see what the bankrupt state will end up doing with more kids to care for than they have 'foster families' to place them if foster families decided it wasn't worth the money to train up kids to be homosexuals.

But then again, money talks and everything else walks - so perhaps that will never happen and foster families will be happy to teach kids how to be good homosexuals of the money.

[Gideon300]

Let’s repeat that: the state of Illinois will not tolerate “exposing” the vulnerable children in its care to people who believe human beings are either male or female and cannot “become” the other. No matter that sexual difference is a scientific fact, or that billions of sane people across the world acknowledge it.

This reminds me so much of "The Island of Dr. Moreau".  Though written over 120 years ago, Wells had it right.  You can put lipstick on a pig until the proverbial cows come home, but it doesn't change it into anything other than a pig.  No matter how you change it's outward appearance, you cannot change a living creature's DNA.  If you were born a pig, you're a pig.  If you ware born male, you're male.  Mother Nature's basic plan is off limits and non-negotiable, and it does not bend to political correctness. 

[Gideon300]

Have this government agency FIRE people over their religious beliefs.  That will be rich, a nice litmus test to see just how far gone the First Amendment actually is and to see if a government agency can COMPEL you to violate your faith and morality.

Second, would be an interesting problem to see what the bankrupt state will end up doing with more kids to care for than they have 'foster families' to place them if foster families decided it wasn't worth the money to train up kids to be homosexuals.

But then again, money talks and everything else walks - so perhaps that will never happen and foster families will be happy to teach kids how to be good homosexuals of the money.

Some of these government agencies look like the liberal gay equivalent of the Amerikadeutscher Volksbund, existing to crank out good little homosexuals. 

[Free Vulcan]

Have this government agency FIRE people over their religious beliefs.

But we can't ban people from coming into the country because of their religious beliefs.