My heart hurts
it is VERY important that you look up who is on the House Appropriations Committee and call your representative if they were part of this! if it’s not the one in your district, call the one in your state! i have some Kansas followers from back home: call up Kevin Yoder and give him a piece of your mind! the ONLY Republican who voted against this was Rep. Scott Taylor of Virginia. all the others are fair game!!
https://appropriations.house.gov/about/members/
above is a link to the list of members in this committee. call them and tell them that this is a dangerous precedent because it favors specific religious views when determining where federal funding can go! any agency receiving federal funds should NOT be able to discriminate—this is government overreach, the VERY THING that Republicans are *supposed* to be against! (i’m speaking in their terms because you need a way to convince those who truly think being gay is “immoral”.)
if you haven’t been able to read the article yet, essentially they’ve added an amendment to a proposed funding bill that says “if any state or locality tries to punish an adoption agency for refusing to let people adopt who go against the deep-seated religious views of the people in charge, they will cut 15% of federal adoption-related funding to that state/locality.” (please, correct me if i’m reading that wrong.) this is essentially saying “if you try to punish adoption agencies for discriminating and not giving children a good home, we’re going to punish you even MORE by cutting funding and FURTHER hurting these kids.”
i cannot stress how important it is to call your representative—specifically whichever ones for your state are on this committee in particular. we NEED to get this stopped while it’s still in the committee phase!
Oh wow, it will effect thousands of lazy asses who dont want to leave their state adopt someone then go back, or people who dont know that you dont have to adopt to have a child, there are surrogates, or even people who dont want their child can just give it to you as long as no one calls cps
do you have a brain