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In yet another attempt at weakening the LGBTQ family unit in the U.S., Republican lawmakers advanced an amendment to the funding bill for the Department of Health, Labor, and Education, that would cut by 15 percent the federal funding of child and welfare services in states that ban adoption agencies that refuse to work with same-sex couples.
In the guise of defending religious freedom of discriminatory child services providers, such as Catholic Charities and Bethany Christian Services, Republicans, lead by congressman Robert Aderholt from Alabama, are launching a full blown attack against LGBTQ families.
The funding bill pushed by Aderholt will not only infringe on the rights of same-sex couples across the country to lead a decent family life, but also deprive tens of thousands of children from the chance of finding new homes, seeing as LGBTQ parents in America are six times more likely to adopt than heterosexual ones.
The recently proposed amendment is but one of numerous bills introduced by Republicans that seek to encroach on the freedoms of LGBTQ community members and block their access to government services. According to the Human Rights Campaign, in 2017 alone 120 ‘anti-gay’ bills were introduced in 30 different states, 12 of which had become law by 2018.
Using the Care2 Petitions platform, Jamie McGonnigal and Sean Carlson, a gay couple, have launched a petition last month in a bid to pressure Rep. Aderholt, as well as other Republican and Democrat congress members, to tank the amendment to the funding bill and prevent federal dollars from financing intolerance and bigotry.
Please consider signing the petition and raising your voice against the systemic and ongoing discrimination of LGBTQ families.
Let the U.S. become an example to governments elsewhere that are struggling to end institutionalized discrimination of LGBTQ people; let it not morph into a case study in how to slyly enshrine anti-gay sentiments in law and carefully craft draconian policies that cripple their rights.
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