Current Vice President and noted homophobe Mike Pence delivered a speech November 12, praising new restrictions from the Trump Administration that will allow taxpayer-funded adoption agencies to deny same-sex couples the right to adopt.
“I couldn’t be more proud that, at President Trump’s direction, and with the strong support of leaders across foster care, adoption, and our faith communities, we’ve taken decisive action,” Pence said in his speech. “We’ve reversed the rule implemented in the closing days of the last administration that jeopardized the ability of faith-based providers to serve those in need by penalizing them for their deeply held religious beliefs. We will stand for the freedom of religion and we will stand with faith-based organizations to support adoption.”
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Pence refers to an Obama-era policy which prohibited agencies receiving federal funds from discriminating based on gender identity or sexual orientation. The new Trump policy also has ramifications far outside adoption. Agencies that provide healthcare services, homeless shelters and even drug recovery programs will have a right to turn away people seeking help and treatment simply for being queer.
“Trump and Pence relentlessly marginalize LGBTQ people and attempt to erase our existence,” HRC President Alphonso David seethed in a statement. “Their disturbing worldview extends into the adoption and foster care systems, where they support giving federally-funded foster and adoption agencies a license to discriminate against LGBTQ children and prospective parents, religious minorities and other vulnerable groups. LGBTQ youth are tragically over-represented in foster care, and this White House continues to exacerbate the marginalization, harassment and discrimination that LGBTQ youth in foster care and families face.”
The Trump Administration is widely regarded as the most ardently anti-LGBTQ administration in history, having implemented discriminatory policies like the one mentioned here, cut funding to HIV/AIDS research and attempted to ban transgender Americans from serving in the armed forces.
tf3.0
I don’t care how you do it, but have your own biological children.
Take pride in your gay genes—propagate them.
Do not help rear the genes of another person who did not care enough for their own progeny.
We must ensure the survival of our people, and adoption is not how you do it.
By all means, adopt kids you know are gay.
ShiningSex
PEOPLE NEED TO STOP BREEDING AND ADOPT.
YOUR ‘GENES’ DOESN’T MAKE SOMEONE YOUR KID. IT’S LOVING THEM AND RAISING THEM.
MOST IDIOTIC CHRISTIANS DON’T WANT ABORTION TO EXIST, BUT DON’T WANT THESE UNWANTED CHILDREN TO HAVE HOMES BY GAYS??? MAKES NO SENSE. MOST OF THEM WON’T EVEN ADOPT THEM EITHER.
Boone
Are you trolling or just mentally deficient? Kinda difficult to tell.
Cam
Republican bigots want legalized discrimination. End of story.
Can’t wait for the trolls to come in and try to hide hate, violence, and bigotry behind the words “Different opinions” before they start crying about what victims racists and bigots are for being called out on their hate.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
So fcuking vile abhorrent noxious soulless smcubags…
Gays tend to adopt older kids who prospective “parents” tend to pass over in favor of white infants. These smcubags would rather a kid languishing in the system til they age out and are thrown into the streets than have a stable home with two loving Parents..
I keep myself sane knowing there is the darkest corner of Hell where these vile reprehensive will suffer unimaginable agony for all eternity
Max
want are the Republican gays doing about this? do they not care about how this affects them as well?
Imjustsaying
To this day no one has been able to pinpoint where in the Bible it says if you discriminate against gays you get a free pass to Heaven.
Bob LaBlah
I wonder if he got the memo about that woman from South Carolina who thinks she’s white and is now promoting a book which is a clear indication of her wanting Pence’s spot on next years ticket.
Kangol2
You know you’re wrong calling out that hyper-ambitious South Carolinian Republican woman by suggesting she is not “white.” She’s whatever she can plausibly convince Republican voters she is, and that isn’t the highest hurdle. Just repeat it 100 times and get in on FoxNews and Breitbart, and they’re converted. As for the Vice President, he’s up to his ears in the Ukraine mess so he’s damaged goods. He skirted any danger with the Russian treasonous crap, though he kisses up to Putin’s puppet Trump like an adoring boyfriend every chance he gets, but he was over there making demands of Zelensky on Trump’s behalf, so maybe he’s hoping he can hang on by convincing the zealots he’s still a good Christian evangelical moral leader. LOL
Hussain-TheCanadian
And they say the worst kind of bigots are closet cases, Pence and Trump are exhibit A and B that straight bigots are the worst kind of homophobes.
AnnMargretFan
Gay couples often take the children cast off from the failed families of heterosexuals. Many of these children have been beaten, sexually molested, neglected, abandoned, tortured, starved, drugged, etc. Gay couples step in, to ensure these children are loved & provided with the finest of homes. If the gay community were of a larger population there would be even fewer kids languishing in foster care. What gives anyone the right to judge these couples? Not Christians, as they are not to judge others, correct? Our constitution & our ideals as a country are that we do not discriminate. Yet, this “man”, obviously full of bigotry, hatred, prejudice & plain evil, is “proud”? The gay community votes, pays taxes, etc, yet they are being discriminated against when it comes to adoption? Pathetic.
RIGay
He is nothing more than a snake; a evil, vile, disgusting snake.
I can only hope that whatever comes of these impeachment inquiries, he gets tied to that sinking ship and effectively has his toxic, political career ended once and for all.
gavo92
I don’t believe in GOD though. LOL
djmcgamester
To me, this makes no sense. It runs entirely against federal law regarding same-sex marriage. We have those rights in regard to anything government-related.