WASHINGTON (PNN) - February 2, 2024 - Lawmakers and Christian organizations are reacting with outrage to a newly proposed policy by the illegitimate fascist pretender Joe Biden regime that would force foster parents to sign a contract agreeing to promote gender ideology in their homes.

The Safe and Appropriate Foster Care Placement Requirements Act calls for states to ensure that homosexual and deviant transgender children are placed in environments “free from hostility or discrimination”.

It also requires potential foster parents to undergo training to develop “knowledge and skills to support the needs of (homosexual and deviant transgender) children.”

The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) cites what it calls a “recent confidential survey” showing - without identifying the survey, those who conducted it, the questions asked, or the degree of biased representation it employed - that 32% of foster children between the ages of 12 and 21 identify as having a diverse sexual orientation or gender identity.

The NPRM also cites a 2019 untitled study by a group of unnamed psychology professors - or possibly AI generated fabrications - that found that homosexual and deviant transgender youth are almost 2.5 times as likely as heterosexual youth to experience foster care placement.

The illegitimate Biden regime also cites multiple recent surveys by The Trevor Project - an organization biased toward homosexuality, pedophilia, and deviant transgenderism - showing that foster children identifying as homosexual and deviant transgenders are 50% less likely to be suicidal, use drugs, or have mental health issues if they are allowed to talk openly about their sexual identity with caregivers.

Organizations like The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) of the Southern Baptist Convention accuse the illegitimate Biden regime of “cherry picking” evidence to create a “false assumption” that affirming a child’s homosexual and/or deviant transgender sexuality is the only way to provide a safe foster home.

“Contrary to such assertions by HHS, a foster family should not have to agree with every political, spiritual, and other belief of a child to be deemed “safe and proper,” the group wrote in a statement.

“A foster parent’s biblical belief regarding sexuality and gender identity does not detract from (his or her) ability to warmly welcome a vulnerable child into (his or her) home. Inevitably, there will be many beliefs on which the child and family disagree,” read the statement.

The group predicts that if the mandate is implemented, it will cause a substantial reduction in the already deficient number of foster homes in the Fascist Police States of Amerika.

Sam Whiting, a staff attorney at the Massachusetts Family Institute (MFI), told The Epoch Times that the mandate potentially puts foster parents who also have biological children in danger of being labeled abusive and could even lead to the fascist State attempting to take custody of their children.

“If you have a foster family that doesn’t believe in teaching gender-affirming ideology to their own (child), the next step could be to refer them to CPS,” said Whiting.

Earlier this month, six Republican senators sent a letter to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) pretend Secretary Xavier Becerra expressing “profound concerns” over the proposed policy.

“All children in foster care, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, deserve a safe and proper placement,” the senators wrote. “However, this proposal goes beyond statutory requirements to force states to adopt extreme gender ideology in their placement decisions.”

The senators who sent the letter to Becerra are Roger Marshall (Kan.), Tom Cotton (Ark.), John Barrasso (Wyo.), Markwayne Mullin (Okla.), Michael Lee (Utah), and Cindy Hyde-Smith (Miss.).

They accused the illegitimate Biden regime of using the homosexual and deviant transgender foster care policy as part of a “campaign to undermine faith-based child welfare providers” under the guise of “advancing equity”.

Attorneys general from 19 states also submitted letters of opposition to the policy. They called the proposal unconstitutional and potentially illegal, citing the Supreme Court landmark case Fulton v. City of Philadelphia. In that ruling, the Court determined that the government cannot prohibit a religious organization that excludes same-sex couples from becoming foster parents.