Defend the Right of Christians to Adopt

Tens of thousands of children throughout the country need loving and stable families. But the United States is currently facing a shortage of loving foster care and adoptive homes, and the nation is facing a crisis.

In Oregon, several hundred children are up for adoption and desperately need someone to care for them, and yet the state is putting their needs second to politics. 

For Oregon, a loving and stable home isn’t enough. They’re requiring that prospective adoptive parents agree with the state’s views on radical gender ideology. They’re turning down anyone who won’t lie to a child about his or her sex, won’t take children to events like Pride parades, and won’t facilitate a child’s access to dangerous procedures and drugs like puberty blockers and hormone shots that can permanently alter a child’s natural development.

This is exactly the situation Jessica Bates faces in Oregon.

Oregon officials are preventing Jessica from adopting because of her Christian beliefs—despite the fact that the state needs people of different religious and cultural backgrounds to pair children with families who are well-suited to each other.

It’s a blatant act of religious discrimination, and it must end.

In 2022, the Department reported having nearly 8,000 children touch Oregon’s foster care system. Many of these children are waiting for their forever homes.

We’re taking on Jessica’s case to ensure that Oregon does not bar Jessica or other people of faith from adoption—opening the door for more placements into forever homes.

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