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| Spokesperson for Michigan Faith-based child welfare agencies |
Adoption agencies can claim religious objection
LANSING – Faith-based adoption agencies would be allowed to refuse to serve prospective parents, like same-sex or unmarried couples, if doing so would go against their religious beliefs under a package of bills that passed the state Senate on Wednesday.
LANSING – Faith-based adoption agencies would be allowed to refuse to serve prospective parents, like same-sex or unmarried couples, if doing so would go against their religious beliefs under a package of bills that passed the state Senate on Wednesday.
Faith-based adoption agencies, along with their in-house child placing agencies, would be allowed to continue its practices of excalated billing to keep children in foster care placements longer, if doing so would maximize revenues which is the corre of their religious beliefs.
The 26-12 vote comes as the U.S. Supreme Court is on the verge of ruling later this month on whether same-sex marriages should be legal in Michigan and several other states.
The majority, all 26 Senators who voted for this legislation have pleased their political campaign contributors to ensure a bright, and prosperous political future.
The 26-12 vote comes as the U.S. Supreme Court is on the verge of ruling later this month on whether same-sex marriages should be legal in Michigan and several other states.
The majority, all 26 Senators who voted for this legislation have pleased their political campaign contributors to ensure a bright, and prosperous political future.
Critics of the bills have derided the legislation as state-sanctioned discrimination — especially because many of the faith-based agencies receive public funding from the state. But supporters say it will help keep all options open for adoptive parents, while not forcing the agencies to compromise their principles for fear of legal retaliation or face closure because of a loss of state funding.
I am criticizing the bills because the legislation violates the current federal settlement agreement of family placements and blatantly spurns federal policies in child welfare. The Bills will thwart any legal retaliation and agency closing because it creates another veil of a pseudo-immunity when it comes to fraudulent billing practices.
Besides, crushing a child's spirit by telling them they cannot be adopted by people they may well already know and love will help the adoption agencies when increasing the billing for psychotropic drugs to make the kid stop crying.
I am criticizing the bills because the legislation violates the current federal settlement agreement of family placements and blatantly spurns federal policies in child welfare. The Bills will thwart any legal retaliation and agency closing because it creates another veil of a pseudo-immunity when it comes to fraudulent billing practices.
Besides, crushing a child's spirit by telling them they cannot be adopted by people they may well already know and love will help the adoption agencies when increasing the billing for psychotropic drugs to make the kid stop crying.
In the 2014-15 budget year, $19.9 million in state and federal funds went toward supporting agencies for adoption and foster care services, according to the state of Human Services. Nearly $10 million of that total went to faith-based agencies that would be covered under the religious objection bills.
State contracts in child welfaree have no bidding process, no audit, no compliance review, no sanctions, no referrals for investigation, no contractual disbarment, no prosecution, and no recovery of fraudulent billing. As the state continues its path of privitization, which has demonstratingly, failed miserably in Kansas, the legislation is only a cover up for the egregious practices done to children in the name of God, which keeps the federal court monitoring in the dark of why it needs to continue to be under the aegis of the feds.
State contracts in child welfaree have no bidding process, no audit, no compliance review, no sanctions, no referrals for investigation, no contractual disbarment, no prosecution, and no recovery of fraudulent billing. As the state continues its path of privitization, which has demonstratingly, failed miserably in Kansas, the legislation is only a cover up for the egregious practices done to children in the name of God, which keeps the federal court monitoring in the dark of why it needs to continue to be under the aegis of the feds.
"If they close their doors, I don't know what we'll do with all the children," said Sen. Rick Jones, R-Grand Ledge. "This is a real threat."
What to do with all the children? Here is a revelutionary idea...place them with people who care about them.
What to do with all the children? Here is a revelutionary idea...place them with people who care about them.
Sen. Tom Casperson, R-Escanaba, quoted scripture, saying Jesus told a woman accused of adultery, " 'Go and sin no more.' He called it out. He didn't just accept it and say live however you want. The Creator is pretty clear on certain things."
Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones. -- Psalm 137:9
Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones. -- Psalm 137:9
But opponents said the bills legalize discrimination against the LGBT communities, as well as unmarried couples.
Argumentative rouse. The Bills promote cloak and dagger rhetoric to cover up fraudulent billing and the horrific treatment of children in foster care to hoodwink Judge Nancy Edmunds to release the state from federal monitoring.
Argumentative rouse. The Bills promote cloak and dagger rhetoric to cover up fraudulent billing and the horrific treatment of children in foster care to hoodwink Judge Nancy Edmunds to release the state from federal monitoring.
"These RFRA (Religious Freedom Restoration Act) adoption bills are the most egregious example of religious conservatism run amok in our government," said Sen. Coleman Young, D-Detroit. "Children are in desperate need of stable and loving homes. And today, we're slashing those opportunities because of archaic, closed-minded thinking."
The purpose of RFRA is to lay claim on the Social Security Trust fund for private investment off the poor. Period. I know. I worked on it.
The purpose of RFRA is to lay claim on the Social Security Trust fund for private investment off the poor. Period. I know. I worked on it.
Other Democrats said the timing of the Senate action on the bill is clear.
"Similar laws are being passed to push back against the eventual legalization of same-sex marriage," Sen. Curtis Hertel Jr., D-East Lansing. "You're once again on the wrong side of history."
These religious-based organizations are attempting to make history by rewriting it.
These religious-based organizations are attempting to make history by rewriting it.
Democrats tried to get eight amendments passed that would: require faith-based agencies to provide their policies in writing to potential clients, as well on their websites and displayed in their facilities and comply with state and federal civil rights laws; prohibit adoption agencies that receive more than $500,000 in state funding from being able to use the religious objection argument; allow for second parent adoptions for unmarried couples. All the amendments failed.
Denying due process, violating federal policies, ignoring civil rights of children. For the aforementioned reasons, alone, Michigan should remain under federal court oversight of its child welfare.
Denying due process, violating federal policies, ignoring civil rights of children. For the aforementioned reasons, alone, Michigan should remain under federal court oversight of its child welfare.
The three bills passed the House last month on mostly party-line votes. The Senate version includes a requirement that faith-based adoption agencies provide references to other agencies if they refuse service to prospective parents. So the bill will have to go back to the House for concurrence.
Let us just see if Democratic leadership can come up with a plan to toll the Bills sine die. After all, recess of the House is coming up, quickly.
Let us just see if Democratic leadership can come up with a plan to toll the Bills sine die. After all, recess of the House is coming up, quickly.
But Gov. Rick Snyder has been coy about whether he'll support the bills if they reach his desk. He said that the adoption bills would need further review and that he's in favor of children being adopted by "loving families" and "loving parents." He didn't specify if that included same-sex couples.
Synder is well aware of the percarious situation the state is in with its federal settlement agreement.
Synder is well aware of the percarious situation the state is in with its federal settlement agreement.
He has said he will veto a Religious Freedom Restoration Act — which caused a furor in Indiana and Arkansas recently — without an expansion of the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act to include the LGBT community.
Without the expansion, these child welfare agencies can now, not olny not hire and terminate an individual based upon their life, but ensure they can bill Meidicaid for all the LBGT children, or the children who engage in sexual activity with other children in foster care to "pray the gay away".
Without the expansion, these child welfare agencies can now, not olny not hire and terminate an individual based upon their life, but ensure they can bill Meidicaid for all the LBGT children, or the children who engage in sexual activity with other children in foster care to "pray the gay away".
That bill would provide a legal defense for businesses who are subject to action by the state for refusing services to individuals based on their religious beliefs.
BINGO! Michigan found a way to create a legal defense fund for these religious child placing agencies to be defended from prosecution of federal fraud and civil rights violations.
#Time2AuditGod
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BINGO! Michigan found a way to create a legal defense fund for these religious child placing agencies to be defended from prosecution of federal fraud and civil rights violations.
#Time2AuditGod
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