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Colonelmustardseed · 36-40
This is all pointless bickering. The foster care system is screwed up for other reasons, and those kids are all vulnerable to all kinds of predators. They want people arguing about whether or not Christians should be allowed to foster kids instead of looking into why so many of those kids get abused under State care. Why aren’t there real qualifications to become foster parents?
SatanBurger · 36-40, F
@Colonelmustardseed
Wrong. Not all Christians are anti gay but a lot are due to evangelicalism and other sects that are more biblically literal. They want you to sign something that promises you'll accept the child as they are when they decide to foster. I find the vocab here misleading because you say "Christians are not allowed to foster kids," when the paragraph in the pic states that Christians before they foster children, must accept the kid's LGBT status NOT that Christians "can't ever foster children."
If you want to acknowledge the presence of predators that children can be placed under, then you should at least acknowledge the issues that arise when anti gay people foster or adopt gay children.
I mean that IS kind of like a KKK member adopting or fostering a black child, it's kind of the same thing almost.
They want people arguing about whether or not Christians should be allowed to foster kids
Wrong. Not all Christians are anti gay but a lot are due to evangelicalism and other sects that are more biblically literal. They want you to sign something that promises you'll accept the child as they are when they decide to foster. I find the vocab here misleading because you say "Christians are not allowed to foster kids," when the paragraph in the pic states that Christians before they foster children, must accept the kid's LGBT status NOT that Christians "can't ever foster children."
If you want to acknowledge the presence of predators that children can be placed under, then you should at least acknowledge the issues that arise when anti gay people foster or adopt gay children.
I mean that IS kind of like a KKK member adopting or fostering a black child, it's kind of the same thing almost.
Colonelmustardseed · 36-40
@SatanBurger Something is wrong in the foster care system. There has been for a long time. If anyone really cares about the well-being of kids who end up in the system, they should acknowledge a lot needs to change that isn’t speculative.
SatanBurger · 36-40, F
@Colonelmustardseed Yes there are multiple issues and they seem to be working on them, so good job!
Nothing speculative about it:
https://apnews.com/article/77b296d450614dc6a1eaf77817944bdf
and
https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/lgbt-youth-in-foster-care-face-bias-discrimination-hrc-calls-for-action
I know what you're trying to do when you call it speculation so I'll tell you that it kind of goes something like this, sure kids can lie about situations but all LGBT kids? If it's prevalent enough for federal health officials to send out a letter in 2011 trying to teach anti gay people to not be anti gay and if it's prevalent enough to have groups worried about it, sure ONE kid can be lying but all of them? The only way out of this situation is to respond back with gaslighting.
Nothing speculative about it:
Sixto Cancel says his ultra-religious foster family frequently talked about their disdain for his homosexuality at the dinner table, trashed his room and called him homophobic slurs. While he was still a teenager, he says, they kicked him out of their Connecticut home after he had lived there for nearly a decade.
“I’ve had foster homes who completely said you can’t live here if you’re gay,” said Cancel, a 21-year-old student at Virginia Commonwealth University who bounced between half a dozen foster homes while in care. “For a long time I had that self-hatred and uncomfortableness with who I am.”
Discrimination against gay and lesbian youths in foster care is prevalent enough around the country that federal health officials sent a letter in 2011 encouraging states to develop training for caseworkers and foster parents on the issue.
“I’ve had foster homes who completely said you can’t live here if you’re gay,” said Cancel, a 21-year-old student at Virginia Commonwealth University who bounced between half a dozen foster homes while in care. “For a long time I had that self-hatred and uncomfortableness with who I am.”
Discrimination against gay and lesbian youths in foster care is prevalent enough around the country that federal health officials sent a letter in 2011 encouraging states to develop training for caseworkers and foster parents on the issue.
https://apnews.com/article/77b296d450614dc6a1eaf77817944bdf
and
"It's a sad reality that most of the stories we hear about how LGBTQ youth are treated in foster care are pretty grim, " said Celeste Bodner, executive director of FosterClub. "Along with HRC, the young leaders of FosterClub recognize the urgent need to address the unequal treatment their LGBTQ peers face in foster care."
https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/lgbt-youth-in-foster-care-face-bias-discrimination-hrc-calls-for-action
I know what you're trying to do when you call it speculation so I'll tell you that it kind of goes something like this, sure kids can lie about situations but all LGBT kids? If it's prevalent enough for federal health officials to send out a letter in 2011 trying to teach anti gay people to not be anti gay and if it's prevalent enough to have groups worried about it, sure ONE kid can be lying but all of them? The only way out of this situation is to respond back with gaslighting.