{"id":20627,"date":"2018-07-16T14:13:51","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T14:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/?p=20627"},"modified":"2018-08-01T20:13:58","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T20:13:58","slug":"fighting-against-a-discriminatory-adoption-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2018\/07\/fighting-against-a-discriminatory-adoption-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting against a discriminatory adoption bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/everychild1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"388\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20631\" srcset=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/everychild1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/everychild1-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/everychild1-768x372.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>Civil rights organizations have been racing into action to stop an amendment to a federal spending bill would allow child welfare agencies, even those that receive government funds, a <a href=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2018\/07\/republicans-vote-for-license-to-discriminate-against-lgbt-parents\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;license to discriminate&#8221;<\/a> against prospective parents who offend their religious beliefs. The amendment was voted into the bill by the U.S. House Appropriations Committee.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advocate.com\/politics\/2018\/7\/13\/activists-fight-back-discriminatory-adoption-bill\" target=\"_blank\">Advocate<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"outstream_div\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0apntag.anq.push(function() {\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\/\/signal to script that this DOM element has been loaded and is ready to be populated with an ad\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0apntag.showTag('outstream_div');\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0});\n<\/script><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;We have been working extremely actively both on the national level and in the states to fight this effort. It\u2019s really, really important for people to immediately call their representatives and senators and say this must be stripped out of any House Appropriations Bill and must not be added to any Senate Appropriations Bill,&#8221; said Julie Kruse of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.familyequality.org\" target=\"_blank\">Family Equality Council<\/a>. &#8220;This is a poison pill amendment. It is an authorization bill that has no business being in an appropriations bill. It needs to come out of the House and stay out of the Senate and stay out of any final bill. It\u2019s extremely dangerous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Family Equality Council has partnered with organizations such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lambdalegal.org\" target=\"_blank\">Lambda Legal<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pflag.org\" target=\"_blank\">PFLAG<\/a> to create the <a href=\"https:\/\/everychilddeservesafamily.com\" target=\"_blank\">Every Child Deserves a Family<\/a> campaign. The campaign is over 400 members strong and is working with LGBT and other civil rights organizations as well as businesses to fight this amendment on the state and federal level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civil rights organizations have been racing into action to stop an amendment to a federal spending bill would allow child<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":20631,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[333,682,485,14329],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fighting against a discriminatory adoption bill - Proud Parenting<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2018\/07\/fighting-against-a-discriminatory-adoption-bill\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fighting against a discriminatory adoption bill - 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