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Action Alert: Call Your Senators Today About Opposing Adoption/Foster Care Discrimination Bill!

This one’s timely, folks: If you have a senator who is a Democrat, or if they are Republican Senators Susan Collins (Maine), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), or Rob Portman (Ohio), use the handy script here to call them today and ask them to sign on to a letter opposing the bill that would allow discrimination in adoption and foster care against LGBTQ prospective parents, LGBTQ youth in care, single or divorced parents, interfaith couples, or people of different religions.

Philadelphia

Federal Judge Rules that Philadelphia Foster Care Agencies Can’t Discriminate Against Same-Sex Parents

Just two days after a U.S. House committee approved an amendment that would allow publicly funded foster care and adoption agencies to discriminate against LGBTQ parents and others based on the agencies’ religious or moral beliefs, a federal court issued a decision saying that Philadelphia can require foster care agencies with city contracts to follow its LGBTQ-inclusive nondiscrimination policies.

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Tell HHS Why We Need Data on LGBTQ Foster and Adoptive Families and LGBTQ Foster Youth

(A guest post from the Every Child Deserves a Family Campaign.) Do you support LGBTQ foster youth and LGBTQ foster and adoptive families? If so, we encourage you to express your views to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services before next Wednesday’s deadline on a regulation proposing changes to how adoption and foster care data is collected.

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Connecticut Steps Up for Kids; Kansas, Oklahoma Step Back

Connecticut has launched a campaign to recruit more LGBTQ parents to become foster or adoptive parents, even as Kansas becomes the ninth state to allow child welfare agencies to discriminate against LGBTQ prospective parents or youth, among others, on the basis of the agencies’ religious beliefs.

LGBTQ Parenting Roundup

LGBTQ Parenting Roundup

A few victories to make your week!

And could a queer mom end up as prime minister of the U.K?

LGBTQ Parenting Roundup

LGBTQ Parenting Roundup

A story of adoption, a business offering expanded family benefits to all employees, progress for same-sex parents in Italy, and more!

Read on.

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Action Alert: Less Than Two Days Left to Tell HHS Not to Implement Discrimination Rule

There are less than two days left to tell the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) why you oppose a new rule that will allow health care providers to refuse a wide range of medical services to patients if furnishing them violates the providers’ religious or moral beliefs. The new rule “weaponizes” HHS’ Office of Civil Rights against LGBTQ people, people living with HIV, and many others, says Lambda Legal. Here’s how to add your voice in opposition to it.

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U.K. Celebrates LGBT Fostering and Adoption Week

It’s LGBT Fostering and Adoption Week in the U.K., so even though I’m based in the U.S., it seemed a good time to share some information about the event, along with stories and resources about fostering and adoption.

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