Don't Bother Applying to Foster or Adopt Children if You Are Traditional Catholics and Live in the P

[PeteS in CA]

Don't Bother Applying to Foster or Adopt Children if You Are Traditional Catholics and Live in the People's Republic of Massachusetts

https://pjmedia.com/culture/marktapscott/2023/08/08/dont-bother-applying-to-foster-or-adopt-children-if-you-are-traditional-catholics-and-live-in-the-peoples-republic-of-massachusetts-n1717250

With assistance from the Beckett public interest law firm that specializes in religious liberty issues, Mike and Kitty Burke are suing the State of Massachusetts and a dozen of its officials associated with the Department of Children and Families (DCF), filing suit in the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts.

“As faithful Catholics, the Burkes believe that all children should be loved and supported, and they would never reject a child placed in their home. They also believe that children should not undergo procedures that attempt to change their God-given sex, and they uphold Catholic beliefs about marriage and sexuality,” the Burkes explain in their filing.

“Because of those decent and honorable beliefs, DCF decided the Burkes were not ‘affirming,’ and therefore prohibited from fostering any child in Massachusetts. As the author of their license study put it, while the Burkes are ‘lovely people,’ ‘their faith is not supportive and neither are they,'” the filing continues.

[mountaineer]

If only they'd assured the bureaucrats that they'd let the foster child pick his/her own gender, no matter how old the child was.

[DefiantMassRINO]

Silly, Libs, mASSachusetts is chock full o' Catholics.

JFK, RFK, and Teddy Kennedy must be rolling over in their graves.

[mountaineer]

Cassandra MacDonald
@CassandraRules
Massachusetts has banned a couple from having foster children due to their conservative Christian beliefs about marriage, sexuality, and gender.

There is currently a shortage of foster families in the state, and over 1,500 children are without foster families.

Mike is an Iraq war veteran, Kitty is a former paraprofessional for special needs children. They are now suing the state for discriminating against them based on their religious views.

During the home interviews, the Burkes noticed that many of the questions they were being asked focused on their Catholic views regarding sexual orientation, marriage, and gender dysphoria. The couple insisted that they would love and accept any child, no matter their sexual orientation or “struggles with gender identity.”

“However, because Mike and Kitty said they would continue to hold to their religious beliefs about gender and human sexuality, Massachusetts denied them a license to foster any child because, as the reviewer put it, ‘their faith is not supportive and neither are they,'” Becket Law explained.

https://timcast.com/news/massachusetts-bans-couple-from-fostering-children-because-of-conservative-catholic-beliefs-on-marriage-and-gender/
1:15 PM · Aug 8, 2023

1A Freedom of Religion federal case MA filed in US District Court in MA  - couple denied license to foster children based upon their Catholic faith

https://twitter.com/Cara_TXZEAL/status/1689045262935724033

[libertybele]

   I hope that they win their case. 

[mystery-ak]

Things have really changed since Mike and I adopted our first son through Catholic Charities 44 years ago...I sympathize with this couple...

[rangerrebew]

Massachusetts denies Catholics the right to adopt
Opinion by Washington Examiner
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Massachusetts deserves a major slapdown for grotesque anti-Catholic discrimination against a couple who wanted to become foster parents.

Helped by the Becket Law legal aid group, Mike and Kitty Burke filed suit on Aug. 8 against state officials who rejected their application to be foster parents. In an exhaustive screening process, state agents gave the Burkes high marks and glowing comments, but the state turned them down because their Catholic “faith is not supportive” of the state’s promotion of transgender medical procedures. The Burkes’ beliefs on sexuality were the sole reason for the denial.
 
Mike Burke is an Iraq War veteran, a small-business owner, and an organist at several Catholic parishes. Kitty Burke is a former special-education caregiver, a small-business owner, and a church cantor. They are willing to take in siblings, children of any ethnicity, or special-needs children, for whom Kitty Burke’s specialist training is perfectly suited.

The Massachusetts foster system is explicitly designed to assess whether each foster home is a good “fit” for the particular child being considered for it. As the lawsuit notes, the system is set up this way to ensure “families who may not be able to foster certain children are still able to foster those that fit well with that foster family.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/massachusetts-denies-catholics-the-right-to-adopt/ar-AA1f7H8V?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=0e820c47523a4084b17ad9c588223da9&ei=25

[sneakypete]

Hard to believe they can get away with that in the northeast,where a LOT of Catholics live.

[Fishrrman]

I would strongly advise Mike and Kitty Burke to gather their things together and upend themselves from the state of Massachusetts and move north into New Hampshire.

They won't be gettin' no relief where they are now.

[Smokin Joe]

Well, after letting pride groups march in the SAINT PATRICK's Day parade, this is where that sort of thing goes.

[jmyrlefuller]

There are 20 prospective adoptive couples in this country for every one child in long-term foster care.

If you want children and aren't able to have them biologically, your best bet at this point is hiring a concubine or finding a more fertile wife.