Faith Under Fire: How Leftists Are Targeting Christian Foster Families

Xitter thread by Matt Walsh

In the late 1990s, Christian families in the small town of Possum Trot, TX, adopted 77 children from the foster-care system. It was a heroic effort by a small church community. Today, leftists are trying to stop Christians from saving more children:

Unsurprisingly, children in foster care are more likely to identify as trans. It shouldn’t shock anyone that children who have faced abuse, trauma, and unstable families are more likely to be confused about their identity and looking for belonging wherever they can find it.

Christian families who feel a call to foster or adopt should be celebrated and supported. Instead, many states are demanding Christians agree to chemically castrate and sterilize gender-confused kids in order to foster any child in the system.

Alliance Defending Freedom currently represents several Christian families in multiple Democrat-run states who have felt called and taken action to offer their love and home to children in need. Some have even spent years as loving foster parents but are now deprived of offering safe haven

In Oregon, a Christian mother & widow named Jessica Bates experienced firsthand the support provided by God and her church community amid her own tragedies. Remarkably, with more love to still give, Jessica sought to become a foster parent.

According to the ADF, Oregon denied Jessica’s application because she wouldn’t commit to using false pronouns or help a child access drugs that could sterilize them and irreversibly alter their bodies. She is not even able to foster a child who shares her Christian beliefs.

In Vermont, Pastor Bryan Gantt and his wife, Rebecca, have been foster parents since 2016, taking care of children born with drug dependencies or fetal alcohol syndrome, and have adopted three children

The ADF claims that “despite a track record of success and high praise from social workers,” Vermont revoked their foster license after they expressed the widely held Christian belief, and basic biological truth, that children can not “transition.”

“Vermont’s foster-care system is in crisis: There aren’t enough families to care for vulnerable kids & children born with drug dependencies… Yet Vermont is putting its ideological agenda ahead of the needs of these suffering kids.” – ADF Counsel, Johannes Widmalm-Delphonse.

Pastor & Mrs. Gantt, and Jessica Bates, are just two examples of the problem Christians, and the vulnerable kids they want to protect, are facing in states like Washington, Oregon, California, Colorado, Vermont, Massachusetts, and more.

Any way a child arrives in the system — parental neglect, drug use, incarceration, abuse — causes deep trauma. Further depriving these children of a safe, loving Christian home because the parents won’t further abuse a gender-confused child is a new, unconscionable barrier.

When Bishop & Donna Martin of Possum Trot, TX, felt called to foster & adopt alongside their biological children — one of whom has special needs — they moved mountains to make it happen. As Christians, their faith in God created a new, loving home for four adopted children.

“Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot” hits theaters today, July 4. You should see it, but don’t let that be all you do. Love, pray for, and support Christians who are called to this important pursuit despite today’s challenges.