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Contents:

• U.S. SUPREME COURT BACKS CATHOLIC GROUP THAT SHUNNED GAY FOSTER PARENTS
• GAY COUPLE ACCED OF SEXUALLY ABG, ‘PIMPG OUT’ ADOPTED CHILDREN
• GAY UPLE CHARGED WH MOLTG THEIR ADOPTED SONS ALSO PIMPED THEM OUT TO PEDOPHILE RG, REPORT CLAIMS
• GAY UPLE ACCED OF RAPG SONS, FILMG ABE ED CHRISTIAN ADOPTN AGENCY: REPORT
• HOW YOU CAN BEE GAY FOSTER PARENTS OR ADOPTIVE PARENTS
• GAY CONNECTICUT UPLE ACCED OF RAPG ADOPTED CHILDREN WILL FACE TRIAL
• SUPREME COURT’S 9-0 RULG ON GAY FOSTER PARENTS DIVIS JTIC
• GAY PARENTS LLED 'RAPISTS' AND 'PEDOPHIL' AMTRAK CINT
• GAY COUPLE ACCED OF RAPG MULTIPLE ADOPTED CHILDREN WILL FACE TRIAL

U.S. SUPREME COURT BACKS CATHOLIC GROUP THAT SHUNNED GAY FOSTER PARENTS

District Judge Petre Tucker 2018 also led agast the of the 50 stat currently allow private agenci to refe to place children wh same-sex upl, acrdg to the Movement Advancement Project, a group backg gay Supreme Court recent years has sent mixed msag on the nflict between LGBT and relig backed gay rights a seri of landmark lgs cludg a 2015 cisn legalizg same-sex marriage natnwi and a 2020 lg that a feral law barrg workplace discrimatn protects gay and transgenr also bolstered relig rights several cisns cludg a 2014 lg that let owners of bs raise relig objectns agast the same-sex uple ever sought certifitn as a foster parent om Catholic Social Servic. In addn to same-sex upl, also will not certify unmarried upl as foster parents, but do not object to certifyg dividual gay people.

GAY COUPLE ACCED OF SEXUALLY ABG, ‘PIMPG OUT’ ADOPTED CHILDREN

A gay uple Geia have been acced of sexually abg and “pimpg out” their adopted children, as well as producg distributg homema child pornography, acrdg to reports.

Gay uple charged wh moltg their adopted sons also pimped them out to pedophile rg, report claims — New York Post (@nypost) January 20, 2023 Acrdg to a 17-unt dictment obtaed by Townhall, the uple allegedly performed oral sex on the boys, forced the children to perform oral sex on them and one stance anally raped the olr child to the pot of jury. The agency claims a relig right unr the First Amendment’s ee exercise clse to exclu lbian and gay upl as foster the urt’s nservative majory l favor of Catholic Social Servic, the most obv losers would be prospective lbian and gay foster parents. Many are phed out of their fay hom bee of homophobia and transphobia; once foster re, they are often more vulnerable to harassment and abe.

Cy of Philalphia, was argued before the Supreme Court November, lawyers for Catholic Social Servic mataed that the cy should grant an exemptn om Philalphia’s anti-discrimatn law and simply allow to refer lbian and gay upl to another agency. Children the foster the journalist Michael Waters recently reunted The New Yorker, wh the rise of gay liberatn, social workers several stat began placg L.

GAY UPLE CHARGED WH MOLTG THEIR ADOPTED SONS ALSO PIMPED THEM OUT TO PEDOPHILE RG, REPORT CLAIMS

Youth wh lbian and gay foster parents.

GAY UPLE ACCED OF RAPG SONS, FILMG ABE ED CHRISTIAN ADOPTN AGENCY: REPORT

Young people, many lbians and gay men were eager to step .

By June 1980, the cy asked Erom to velop s own foster re 1981, Erom began recg lbian and gay foster parents and opened one of the first L. Erom was forced to close s doors for fancial reasons 1984, but s efforts helped lead to the cy’s first nference on social servic for lbian and gay youth later that year.

Relig ratnal for homophobic and transphobic discrimatn would be legimized.

HOW YOU CAN BEE GAY FOSTER PARENTS OR ADOPTIVE PARENTS

A gay uple om Geia charged wh moltg their two adopted sons and g them to rerd child porn also allegedly pimped them out to members of a lol pedophile rg, acrdg to a disturbg new report.

In the fall of 1973, New York began placg queer children wh queer parents wh the aid of the Natnal Gay Task Force, a new gay-rights anizatn based Manhattan.

The group’s head of muny servic, who had begun receivg panicked lls om agenci reprentg gay naways, started ördatg wh foster-re agenci Delaware and Connecticut.

GAY CONNECTICUT UPLE ACCED OF RAPG ADOPTED CHILDREN WILL FACE TRIAL

A ltle more than a year later, a twenty-six-year-old gay social worker named Michael Weltmann took up the e on behalf of a lbian uple who were seekg to serve as foster parents for a gay boy who had n away om home.

The boy “wanted to live wh her, and our office approved , ” Weltmann later explaed to the Philalphia Gay News.

SUPREME COURT’S 9-0 RULG ON GAY FOSTER PARENTS DIVIS JTIC

In the followg years, Weltmann registered two other queer foster parents: a man who had beiend a gay teen-ager while workg at a psychiatric hospal and a woman who had raised other foster kids for the partment before g out as lbian. Parts of emerged a handful of newspapers; “Radil Relatns, ” a history of the queer fay by the scholar Daniel Wunwe Rivers, published 2013, briefly not the existence of “tac programs” to match gay youth wh gay upl Illois and New Jersey. Social workers were wrtlg wh the sheer number of kids the foster system; gay and trans kids, who were often rejected by prospective foster parents, were pecially difficult to place.

Fdg gay foster parents jt seemed like a natural solutn. ” When Randy wasn’t workg or volunteerg at the unsellg center, he ma his missn to troduce Ward to Seattle’s gay scene.

Ward lled him “Mama Randy, ” and together they went to events such as the Universy of Washgton’s weekly “gay skate. Mary Morrison, the head of the aln, lled the new regulatns “an asslt on gay people and women.

GAY PARENTS LLED 'RAPISTS' AND 'PEDOPHIL' AMTRAK CINT

When one uple clared their support for banng gay foster parents, sistg that there was “no place the foster re program for lbians and homos” or “their sordid and sful way of life, ” they were met wh tlls and boos.

GAY COUPLE ACCED OF RAPG MULTIPLE ADOPTED CHILDREN WILL FACE TRIAL

Up to that pot, the rejectn of gay foster parents was an implic policy—there were no formal l—bee was simply assumed that queer people uld not be f parents. In a 1974 paper, Michael Shernoff, a gay psychotherapist, attributed the vant policy around gay foster parents to a lack of years later, June, 1979, the New York Tim reported on an openly gay mister named John Kuiper, om Catskill, New York, who had adopted a thirteen-year-old boy. Daniel Rivers, the historian, has scribed Kuiper as “the first openly gay man or lbian to publicly adopt a child the Uned Stat.

”That fall, a graduate stunt was fishg her social-work field placement Weltmann’s office when an assistant supervisor nfid her about ocsnally licensg gay and lbian foster parents. Sce the early seventi, a loose work of New Jersey social workers had arranged for olr gay and trans foster kids—ually aged thirteen to eighteen—to be placed gay foster hom.

Officials Fd Gay Foster Parents for Gay Teen-Agers. The document noted that securg re for gay foster kids had long been a “particularly sensive problem” for the agency and that “on rare ocsns” the divisn had placed “sexually experienced homosexual teenagers” wh gay foster parents. Not all gay and trans kids were tomatilly placed gay hom; was done only “when such an adolcent is eher not adjtg his own fay or had no fay available.