Natalie Goodnow Promulgates A Child Welfare Propaganda Legal Defense For Faith Based Trafficking Of Tiny Humans In Michigan

Natalie Goodnow
Child Welfare Propagandist

Why in the world would anyone want to promote the dismantling of civil rights?

Let us ask Natalie Goodnow of the American Enterprise Institute, my favorite lil think tank that can crank out some child welfare propaganda better than rest.

AEI is the home of Madame Maura Corrigan (said in a high British accent), the godhead of the implementation of privatization, which all started in child welfare.

Maura Corrigan likes to train people, so, of course, I wonder if she trained Natalie in this propaganda.

In this particular propaganda campaign to prepare for congressional hearings and the Michigan Auditor General report on privatization in child welfare, Natalie is defending Faith-Based Agencies, which just so happen to be all privatized.

The Michigan Children's Ombudsman, Orlene Hawks, who is still a few laps behind on what is going on, even expressed her concern about Michigan continuing to operate through privatization, so you know that is not working because we are just only talking about Faith-Based Agencies.

The reason she is using Michigan as her example is because privatization in child welfare started here, in Michigan, under John Engler.

Yes, the same Engler who has some issues over there at Michigan State University because child welfare privatization policies for the state came from there.

Yes, Natalie uses her talking points platform, in support of Faith-Based Agencies, to circumvent that Michigan's child welfare system which is still under federal court monitoring, of which I truly hope will go under federal receivership because the system is rife with fraud, as a legal defense because it comes from an extremely biased political think tank.

Yes, Natalie focuses on Michigan, the state where former U.S. Representative Hansen Clark formally requested the U.S. Attorney General to investigate Michigan's child welfare system, which just so happens to be privatized and faith-based.

((Sshhhh, you did not hear this from me but Hansen Clark was never supposed to win that election because the "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending) tried to rig it but the people really, really liked Hansen and so do I.))

Back to Natalie.

Anyway, Natalie also uses Catholic Charities as one of her working examples to hold up her waning argument with some dry rotted crutches of arcane chattel law, to justify the fact that just because Catholic Social Services was so jacked up in Michigan when it was under Bureau of Children and Adult Licensing (BCAL), the regulatory oversight for child welfare, that the state, through privatization policies, whick was dismantled, by contracting out through privatization, whereby the Attorney General will do nothing to prosecute, sanction, contractually debar, revoke licensing, or even recover fraud, because it is a civil matter, dealing with a private corporation, which just so happens to be a non-profit, meaning you cannot FOIA or take any form of legal action because of one's membership in the population of "The Poors" (always said with clinched teeth), which means one cannot afford legal representation, absolving the state through an artificially created immunity,

Catholic Social Services was so jacked up, and I only speak from personal experiences, that it became a Corporate Shape Shifter and restructured under the corporate umbrella of Catholic Charities.

As a matter of fact, Catholic Charities is so jacked up, I was calling them out as far back as 2015 to be probed, and, I have a sneaky suspicion that they were, hence the upcoming congressional hearings because they are already doing the for-profit side.

See, the for-profit side of privatized child welfare organizations make their money through Social Impact Bonds on Wall Street.

The non-profit sides like to money launder, buy land and fund political campaigns.

I smell the collaborative work of George Bush, John Engler, Betsy DeVos and Maura Corrigan because Faith-Based was, and still is, bread and butter for their personal investment ventures,

This is Faith-Based child welfare operational mentality in Michigan:

Michigan CPS Runs Out Of Tiny Humans To Traffic, Switches To Profit From Warehousing Immigrant Tiny Humans Instead

These Faith-Based Agencies are nothing but residuals of the peculiar institution because the Emancipation Proclamation forced them to shift over to the charity model to promulgate the trafficking of tiny humans, to maximize revenues, of course.

Behold, the child welfare propaganda of Natalie Goodnow, if that is even her real name.

How do I know?

Because I am the original source and I smell fear.

I smell it whenever I see a desperate online propaganda campaign in child welfare.

You can spot the models so easily it is not even a challenge to me anymore.

She privatized her tweets because she is a private contractor, even though she is generating public policy through legal defensive propaganda.

This is going to get really nasty and it is coming back home to Michigan.

There are no civil rights in child welfare because it is privatized.

In the spirit of fuchsia...

The Role of Faith-Based Agencies in Child Welfare

For decades, the government has relied on private child-welfare providers, including faith-based agencies (FBAs), to help care for children in foster care. There are about 440,000 children in care right now, about a quarter of whom are waiting for adoption. In places like Illinois, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, some FBAs have been forced to shut their doors because of their faith. Eighty members of Congress penned a letter on May 23 to President Trump urging him to protect faith-based child welfare providers. The future of FBAs in Michigan and Philadelphia are currently under threat.

In the big people world, we like to call this "decades long government relying upon private child welfare providers" privatization, Executive Order 12803 Infrastructure Privatization under George Bush, Sr.

The letter states:

“Child neglect, abuse, and abandonment are being fueled by the ongoing opioid epidemic, yet as more children are entering the foster care system we have fewer families available to provide safe and loving homes for them. ...

“We cannot allow history to repeat itself and shut out faith-based agencies doing crucial and quality work. Too much $$$ is at stake to place politics above the needs of our nation’s most vulnerable children. Members of Congress are working to develop legislative solutions. But this issue is so important that all branches of government must take responsible action.”

Members of Congress, the Executive Office, and the Judiciary are all working to develop solutions, but I do not think they will all be "legislative" solutions.*  (snicker).

*I did not archive that page.

Faith-based adoption agencies are too valuable to shut down

On May 18, Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer signed into a law a bill that would allow faith-based child welfare providers to continue serving vulnerable children and families in accordance with their sincerely held religious beliefs. Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin signed a similar law on May 11. They join the ranks of seven other states that, over the last few years, have proactively protected FBAs that provide foster care and adoption services

A lawsuit by the ACLU in Michigan — a state which currently protects FBAs — wants the state to stop allowing FBAs exemption from regulations that conflict with their faith. If the ACLU wins out, organizations like Catholic Charities would likely not be able to continue providing their services to vulnerable children.

ACLU sucks because it is constrained with their "token-box" check off system of class based animus certification future fundraising money laundering operations through their charitable partners in ignoring the fact that in child welfare, particularly in Faith-Based, there is the legal "Right To Lie" in foster care and adoption because they are immune from prosecution of false claims to the courts and to DHHS for cost reimbursements, in its stripping of civil rights.

My new report out for the Heritage Foundation looks at the important role of faith-based agencies (FBAs) in the child-welfare system. It also lays out what states would lose if many FBAs had to end their foster care and adoption services over regulations that conflicted with their sincerely held beliefs.  

Your report sucks and I salivate for the opportunity to pungently thrash you in a court of law, that way you are under oath and every time you lie or just regurgitate your child welfare propaganda in the record, I will be able to request to hold you in contempt, just by going through my databases that the world has access to with their thumbs on their hand held devices for real time castigation.

Heck, I bet I can get referrals on your for participating in some cover up racketeering activities, or civil rights violations, or just get you a scheduled ridicule your entire career in a public forum, of which I shall enshrine in the annals of history, all of your illustrious institutional instruction upon child welfare fraud.

Oh, I forgot, I also wrote a book.  You do know who is reading my book, right, Natalie?  If you do not, I strongly encourage you to go find out.

With a population of 325 million people — Hispanics, Christians, Asians, atheists, whites, Muslims, African Americans, Buddhists, Native Americans (and too many other religions, races, and ethnicities to list) — across 3,000 counties and two billion acres of intensely varied geography, the United States represents an incredibly diverse community. This is mirrored in a diverse set of providers that deliver human services to families across the nation, including foster and adoptive services. There are public, private, faith-based, and secular child-welfare agencies. They all abide by regulations and requirements set by their states, to ensure a certain standard of care for the children they serve. They all do important work. With the growing foster care and adoption needs of the country, there is plenty of room for all these agencies to roll up their sleeves and work together.

I just adore the use of these Linneaus based hierarchial classification taxonomies when dealing with lower level populations of "The Poors" (always said with clinched teeth). It is just a Faith-Based thang, to make you feel better about the filing of false claims and trafficking tiny humans, you know.

Forcing agencies out because of their faith leaves other agencies to absorb their caseloads — requiring more caseworkers, more foster families to recruit and train, and more resources to serve these additional children. That is especially tough when many agencies are already staggering under the influx of children into foster care over the last five years.

No one is forcing you to leave your faith.  We just want you to stop trafficking tiny humans and put down your imperialistic morality parade drums because all you are doing is running a proactive propaganda defensive campaign because you know you are going to face legal, public query, in the not so distant future.

While nationwide the number of children in foster care has increased by 10 percent from 2012 to 2016, several states saw growth of over 50 percent in that time, like Georgia, Minnesota, Mississippi, and New Hampshire. The number of kids in care waiting for adoption increased 15 percent nationwide from 2012 to 2016. One of the primary driving factors in this increase is the opioid crisis — which has only continued to worsen.

It has worsened because Faith-Based funding is for propaganda purposes, only.  Did I tell you Michigan is looking into Faith-Based funding in child welfare?  No?  I just did.

This has increased the number of foster homes needed. However, many states have actually seen their foster-home capacity decrease over the last few years — either because their number of foster homes is going down, or because the number of foster homes isn’t increasing fast enough to keep up with the growing numbers of children in foster care. People of faith are more likely to step forward for this role. Research has found that practicing Christians are much more likely to adopt and foster, or even consider fostering, compared to the general population.

The number of foster homes are going down because "The Poors" (always said with clinched teeth) do not qualify to be foster parents and most of them see a problem with the trafficking of tiny humans, or shall I just refer to its christian Faith-Based term of chattel.

There are also many examples of faith-based organizations and networks that excel at recruiting foster parents. The CALL in Arkansas helped recruit almost half the state’s foster families. Focus on the Family helped cut in half the number of children in Colorado waiting to be adopted. These are just two instances. Sometimes FBAs also do a better job at finding forever homes for populations that are traditionally harder to place, such as sibling groups and older youth. For example, 45 percent of all Catholic Charities adoptions were children with special needs in 2016.

Those trafficking tiny human networks are well established in the churches through Faith-Based funding.

FBAs are valuable partners for states and can help prevent children from languishing in care or aging out of the system without a permanent family. In a time of great need when there is a shortage of foster and adoptive families in many places, states that are looking to take full advantage of their local resources should embrace their faith communities. Likewise, faith networks and organizations should increase their efforts and commitment to families in need and help ensure that every child has a loving home.

I have a grand idea.  How about you stop stealing children, the land and the votes in the name of the tax exempt god?

Natalie Goodnow is a research fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty and a visiting fellow at the Independent Women's Forum.

The Role of Faith-Based Agencies in Child Welfare by Natalie Goodnow by Beverly Tran on Scribd

Oh, Natalie, you are being mean to my Sweetie in your incipient attempt at developing a legal defense through your Faith-Based propaganda.

You do understand the moral of the story..."Do not be mean to my Sweetie, Period."

I await our public encounter.

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Right Here - Parental Rights Hits Center Stage - How They Were Stealin' The Children, Land & Votes

Right here.

This is what it is all about.

Parental Rights is bastardizing the original intent of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

The Embryo Adoption Public Awareness Campaign was first funded by Congress in fiscal year 2002. The original purpose of the program was to increase public awareness of the existence of a large number of human embryos remaining after in vitro fertilization procedures, some of which might be available for adoption by infertile couples. In fiscal year 2008, Congress expanded the scope of the program to include interventions that provided “medical and administrative services” to individuals and couples in order to facilitate the adoption and donation of embryos for the purpose of family formation. P4

Some non-Federal entities have expressed concerns that requiring compliance with certain non-statutory requirements of those paragraphs violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), 42 U.S.C. § 2000bb, et seq., or the U.S. Constitution, exceeds the Department’s statutory authority, or reduces the effectiveness of programs, for example, by reducing foster care placements in the Title IV-E program of HHS’s Administration for Children and Families. p5.

In this proposed rule, the American University, Beirut, and the World Health Organization are exempted specifically from the indirect-cost-rate limitation because they are eligible for negotiated facilities and administration (F&A) cost reimbursement.

TRASNLATION: FRAUD. CHILDREN'S FAKE ASS FOREIGN CHILD WELFARE NGOs AND THEIR FAKE ASS CHILDREN'S TRUST FUNDS RUNNING CHILD WELFARE PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGNS ALL THE DAMN TIME BECAUSE THE COST REIMBURSEMENT IS THROUGH MEDICAID AND LOTS AND LOTS OF STUPID PREDICTIVE MODELING CRAP RESEARCH GRANTS FOR FOREIGN UNIVERSITIES, SUCH AS LISTED ABOVE, ARE DOING ON TINY HUMANS. SEE SAM BROWNBACK. EMPHASIS ADDED.

This proposed restriction on indirect costs, as indicated by 45 CFR 75.101, would flow down to subawards and subrecipients. The Department recognizes that this provision could be interpreted as having a financial impact on small entities. These limits, however, have been operational since the publication of the Final Rule, and therefore grantees would not need to make any changes to their current practice in response to this rulemaking.  

RFRA Adoption Proposed Rule Change by Beverly Tran on Scribd

Oh, heavens to Betsy DeVos!

Whatever shall you do, my Dearest Dana?

I see an encroachment on your Frank Kelly Powers.

I also see an interesting psyoptic going on with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and I think I like it!

RFRA Adoption Proposed Rule Change by Beverly Tran on Scribd

This is modern day human trafficking.

#Time2AuditGod

HHS changes rules to protect religious adoption agencies

Washington D.C., Nov 1, 2019 / 02:00 pm (CNA).- The Trump administration has announced a change to federal rules to preserve federal funding of faith-based adoption agencies, regardless of their views on same-sex marriage.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Nov. 1 that it would change its enforcement of previous regulations and propose a new rule, allowing faith-based adoption agencies to continue receiving federal funding while not having to match children with same-sex couples against their religious mission.

HHS said it would revise a 2016 rule that conditioned federal funding of child welfare agencies upon their matching children with same-sex couples.

The U.S. bishops’ conference (USCCB) praised the change in a statement released on Friday.

“To restrict faith-based organizations’ work by infringing on religious freedom – as the 2016 rule threatened to do - is unfair and serves no one, especially the children in need of these services,” said a joint statement by Bishop Frank Dewane of Venice, Florida, chair of the USCCB Domestic Justice and Human Development committee, Bishop James Conley of Lincoln, chair of the USCCB Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage, and Bishop Robert McManus of Worcester, Massachusetts, chair of the USCCB Committee for Religious Liberty.

The previous regulation “threatened to shut out faith-based social service providers, namely adoption and foster care agencies that respect a child’s right to a mother and a father,” the bishops said.


The announcement comes in the middle of a “foster care crisis” in which faith-based adoption agencies will play a critical role in placing children with families, religious freedom advocates said.

“It is just as important today to continue fighting so that vulnerable children will have all hands on deck in the midst of a nationwide foster care crisis,” said Lori Windham, senior counsel at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty.

“Every child deserves a chance to be raised in a loving home,” said Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Zack Pruitt said, noting that there are more than 400,000 children in the foster care system and 100,000 eligible for adoption. HHS’s action “offers hope for children, more options for birth mothers, support for families, and increased flexibility for states seeking to alleviate real human need,” he said.

However, the administration’s proposed rule “would only fix part of the problem,” Windham tweeted, as faith-based agencies also face hostility from state and local governments and thus “still need help from SCOTUS.”

Becket represents several entities affected by the Obama administration regulation and similar state and local efforts to push child welfare agencies to place children with same-sex couples.

In a press release on Friday morning, HHS said it would stop enforcing certain regulatory provisions for administering grants, due to a problematic interpretation of them by the Obama administration.

The federal agency also issued a proposed rule revising part of a 2016 Obama-era regulation, to better protect faith-based adoption agencies.

The rule, HHS said, would ensure respect for civil rights while protecting religious freedom and “eliminating regulatory burden” on “the free exercise of religion”; it would do so by requiring grant recipients to comply with existing anti-discrimination laws passed and religious freedom laws that have been passed by Congress, while also requiring HHS to comply with relevant Supreme Court decisions.

Faith-based adoption agencies have had to contend with efforts at the federal, state, and local levels that conditioned public funding on the agencies placing children with same-sex couples in violation of their religious mission.

In Michigan, Catholic Charities West Michigan—represented by ADF—brought a federal lawsuit against the state for withholding funding from faith-based adoption agencies over their stances on marriage. A federal court recently blocked the Obama-era regulation from going into effect in a case involving St. Vincent Catholic Charities and a family looking to adopt, represented by Becket.

“Both the federal government and a federal court have now recognized that discrimination against faith-based agencies seeking to serve those most in need should not be tolerated. We hope that state and local governments will follow suit,” Windham said.


There are several federal laws which are relevant to nondiscrimination in the adoption and foster care system.

These include Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which forbids discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin in programs of child welfare agencies and state courts. Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 forbids sex discrimination in federally-funded education programs; other laws prohibit discrimination for age and disability.

The Obama administration interpreted existing law to forbid discrimination in the child welfare system not only on basis of sex, but sexual orientation. Thus, it began taking action against adoption agencies that did not place children with same-sex couples, on the grounds that they were discriminating against an individual’s sexual orientation.

Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-Ala.) introduced an amendment in a 2018 funding bill to withhold some HHS funding of states that would not allow faith-based organizations to carry out their religious mission in child welfare. The amendment was removed from the legislation before a final House vote.

Adoption agencies have also been facing adverse action from states which have anti-discrimination laws.

In Massachusetts, Catholic Charities of the Boston Archdiocese stopped its adoption services in 2006 after the state legalized same-sex marriage. Catholic Charities in California and Illinois also stopped their adoption services in 2006 and 2011, respectively.

In Illinois, the bishops had said that the state “made it financially impossible for our agencies to continue to provide these services,” after the state legalized same-sex marriage and required adoption agencies to pair children with same-sex couples.

In 2018, the city of Philadelphia stopped placing adoptive children with Catholic Social Services, only days after calling for 300 new families to adopt foster children.

The city faces a lawsuit by several foster mothers for its decision to stop working with Catholic Social Services, and on Nov. 15, the Supreme Court will decide whether or not to grant review in Fulton v. Philadelphia.

Speaking of grant announcements, a funny thing happened while searching for the Federal Registry Announcement for public comments, where I shall, in the Spirit of the Celestial Goddess of the Woodshed, perform the perfection of prayers for the heavens to fall, I found this fun little Faith Based Funding grant of the Office of Population Control for the search of hosts to gestate a corporation's moveable chattel in the form of embryos.

The Embryo Adoption Public Awareness Campaign was first funded by Congress in fiscal year 2002. The original purpose of the program was to increase public awareness of the existence of a large number of human embryos remaining after in vitro fertilization procedures, some of which might be available for adoption by infertile couples. In fiscal year 2008, Congress expanded the scope of the program to include interventions that provided “medical and administrative services” to individuals and couples in order to facilitate the adoption and donation of embryos for the purpose of family formation. 

The National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) has collected information over the past several years regarding the behaviors and access to health services of females and males within the United States of America related to family formation and reproductive health. Data from the 2012 NSFG release (which received partial support from the Embryo Adoption Awareness program) suggested that nearly two-thirds of U.S. women of reproductive age knew of embryo adoption/donation as a method of family formation. Preliminary analysis from more recent studies indicate that awareness continues to increase. Building upon the public’s awareness, in 2016, OPA supported a small but in-depth study of obstetrician/gynecologists’ knowledge and practices regarding embryo adoption/donation. Though awareness of embryo adoption/donation was nearly universal among the study participants, none of them had ever offered education and counseling on embryo adoption/donation nor suggested it to a patient.

https://beverlytran.blogspot.com/search?q=embryo

Happy Tiny Human Trafficking Month! 

Announcement of Availability of Funds for Embryo Adoption/Donation Services and Public Awareness Grants by Beverly Tran on Scribd

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Michigan Christian Child Welfare Medicaid Fraud Laws

It has taken me a moment to reiterate what I have been proselytizing for years about Medicaid fraud in child welfare, but, for now, I can give another reason why no one will talk about it.

I cannot respout links on every issue in this faith-based adoption bullshit, but I can reiterate the eminent problems with privatization.

I cannot respout the links on every issue in this faith-based adoption privatization bullshit, but I can reiterate the eminent problems with Medicaid fraud in child welfare.

I can, also, remind the good Christian-based child placing agencies in Michigan that I know what you do and I know what happens with parents who are gay and end up with a child abuse case, just because they are gay, and it is not good.

I can, also, remind the good Christian-based adoption agencies in Michigan that I know what you do and I know what happens with foster children who are gay, and it is not good.

This has everything to do with covering up Medicaid Fraud in Child Welfare, in the name of God.

That is why no one will listen, see, or speak upon Medicaid Fraud in Child Welfare...too much frederal money would be lost and too many would lose their jobs and businesses...in the name of God.

#Time2AuditGod

Snyder signs controversial faith-based adoption bills

Lansing — Gov. Rick Snyder signed a controversial package of bills Thursday allowing faith-based agencies to turn away gay and lesbian couples seeking state-supported adoptions.

Snyder signed the bills without ceremony, just one day after the Legislature sent him the legislation. The law goes into effect immediately. The ACLU of Michigan vows to challenge it.

The new law allows faith-based adoption agencies to invoke their sincerely held religious beliefs in denying adoption placement services to gay and lesbian couples who want to be parents. The agencies would be required to refer gay and lesbian couples to another adoption agency.

In a statement, the Republican governor emphasized the bills puts adoption practices, already in use, into law.

Snyder’s quick signature of the bills came after Senate Republicans held an unexpected vote on the legislation Wednesday that was not on the chamber’s published agenda. The bills cleared a Senate committee in late April.

The swift passage and gubernatorial signature took opponents by surprise and left little time for members of the business-dominated Michigan Competitive Workplace Coalition to get direction from corporate leadership on whether they could oppose the bills, said Shelli Weisberg, legislative director for the ACLU of Michigan, a member of the coalition.

“By the time they all tried to get it through the hierarchy of where they would be on these bills, they were being signed by the governor this morning,” Weisberg said Thursday. “They moved so fast. I had no inkling they were moving until Wednesday morning.”

The coalition was formed last year to lobby Snyder and the Republican-controlled Legislature for a ban on discrimination in hiring, housing and public accommodations based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

Snyder’s office said that adoption rates in Michigan have continued to increase in recent years. In the 2014 fiscal year, 85 percent of children in the foster system were adopted, up from 70 percent in 2011. As many as 13,000 children reside in Michigan’s foster care system at any given time, according to lawmakers.

“The state has made significant progress in finding more forever homes for Michigan kids in recent years and that wouldn’t be possible without the public-private partnerships that facilitate the adoption process,” Snyder said in a statement. “We are focused on ensuring that as many children are adopted to as many loving families as possible regardless of their makeup.”

In fiscal year 2014, Michigan spent $19.9 million on contracts with private agencies for adoption services, according to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. It accounted for about 85 percent of the $23.2 million the state spent that year on adoption support services.

Seventeen of Michigan’s 62 adoption placement agencies are faith-based, according to the Michigan Catholic Conference.

The ACLU said Thursday it is preparing to challenge the new law in court by contending the adoption agencies serve as agents of state government when placing children under contract with the DHHS.

“It’s illegal for the state of Michigan to discriminate in these placements,” said Rana Elmir, deputy director.

Paul A. Long, president of the Michigan Catholic Conference, praised the governor’s action Thursday, saying the new law “will ensure the state does not discriminate against social service agencies that serve the poor and vulnerable while providing foster care and adoption services to the general public.”

Critics have said the new law gives faith-based adoption agencies a legal license to discriminate against gays and lesbians.

“Gov. Rick Snyder has proven today that he has utter disdain for the welfare of children in Michigan and that he cares only about empowering backwards discrimination,” said Chad Griffin, president of the Human Rights Campaign, a national advocacy group for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals. The group placed a full-page ad, “Shame on Gov. Snyder,” in Friday’s The Detroit News.

Opponents of the new adoption law have compared it to the religious freedom law Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed in March that caused a national uproar because it would have allowed private businesses to refuse to serve gays and lesbians. Pence later reversed course and signed a second law banning discrimination against gays and lesbians for public accommodations and business services.

“We hope that Gov. Snyder is prepared for the same amount of backlash that was seen in Indiana when they passed similar RFRA-style legislation and we encourage the people to raise up their voices in protest,” Lonnie Scott, executive director of Progress Michigan, said in a statement Thursday.

Snyder has vowed to veto a Religious Freedom Restoration Act bill modeled after Indiana’s ill-fated law if it’s not tied to a bill adding sexual orientation to Michigan’s law banning discrimination in workplaces, housing and public accommodations.

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Michigan House Passes Medicaid Fraud Bills

Here is my question:

If the 17 christian (non-capitalization is intentional) child placing agencies can turn away prospective

adoptive persons based on sexual orientation, does it also mean these agencies can deny services to foster children based on sexual orientation also?

These faith-based, nonprofit corporations are exempt from any oversight and typically will proceed with recommendations of extended stays in foster care and termination of parental rights on the premise of whatever they consider to be moral turpitude.

What is next?  Denial based on the color of one's skin?  It could be.

Michigan Children's Institute Superintendent Bruce Hoffman, groomed by Bill Johnson, already makes such decisions when considering adoption.  Based on the Cotton doctrine, the decision to deny adoption must be proved to have been "arbitrary and capricious", not that the decision was wrong or discriminating.

No where in these Bills is there mention of the decision process.  The Bills are severely flawed because they contain prejudicial decision making, or rather, the Bills legislate the courts via prejudice.

Adoption of foster children is a federally funded service.  To deny anyone services based on a questionable internal policy is nothing short of being unlawfully discriminating.

There is no due process in child welfare.

I hope HHS financially penalizes the State, again.

Why would anyone want to "preserve" such a corrupt system which was designed as a predatory aggressor to the poor?

It is because they want the money, Medicaid dollars.  Today, it is child placing agencies, tomorrow it is Social Security.

All policies begin with children.

The faith-based angle using the Religious Freedom Restoration Act began years ago and started out of Michigan.  It failed to succeed in ratifying the Constitution.  Now, they have revamped to diffuse it State by State.

These Bills are the beginning of the dismantling of civil rights through privatization.

Pay close attention to these names:

George Darany, of Dearborn,
Robert Kosowski of Westland,
Sam Singh if Lansing, the Representative who offered amendment of 90 effectuation, and,
Harvey Santana of Detroit,the Representative who introduced the Bill.

What gets me the most is there is language to ban the state departments from regulating these agencies.

These Bills are nothing but legislated Medicaid fraud in child welfare.

Michigan House OKs bills on faith-based adoption refusal

LANSING — Faith-based adoption agencies could refuse to serve prospective parents based on their religious beliefs under a package of bills that passed the state House of Representatives Wednesday.

The bills, which would allow the agencies to refuse service to same-sex or unmarried couples if that goes against their religious beliefs, are moving as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments next month on whether same-sex marriage should be legal in Michigan and several other states in the region.

All three bills passed on 65-44 votes, with Democratic Reps. George Darany, of Dearborn, Robert Kosowski of Westland and Harvey Santana of Detroit, joining all but one Republican in voting for the package. State Rep. Mike Callton, R-Nashville, voted against the bills.

The votes came after passionate debate in the House with supporters saying the bills ensured that the state continue to offer as many adoption options as possible.

"These bills simply preserve the system we use today," said Rep. Andrea LaFontaine, R-Columbus.

"This bill is not about who can and who cannot adopt a child . it's about ensuring the most alternatives for people wanting to adopt a child." Tom Hickson, vice president for public policy at the Michigan Catholic Conference, said the bills were an important tool for finding loving homes for all children.

"Securing diversity in child placement and protecting religious liberty rights for faith based agencies will move children out of the foster care system," he said in a statement.

"Without this legislation there will likely be fewer providers, which means fewer opportunities to find homes for kids that need them."

Opponents, said the bills simply allow state-sanctioned discrimination.

"It's not just discrimination. It's writing a check for discrimination. It's state-funded discrimination," said Rep. Jeff Irwin, D-Ann Arbor.

"The only reason you're voting for this bill is that you're blinded by your own faith." Rep. Jon Hoadley, D-Kalamazoo, one of two openly gay members of the House, said it's scary to be gay in Michigan and the adoption agency bills only contribute to that fear.

"These bills put the best interest of the agency over the best interest of the child," he said. "And it violates the constitution because it elevate some religious beliefs over others.

"Rep. Marcia Hovey-Wright, D-Muskegon, said the bills come as the nation is experiencing a sea change in attitudes toward same sex marriage and the legal rights that are afforded to newly married couples.

The state should look at how it spends its money for adoption services, she added. "The state needs to reevaluate this discriminatory policy," she said.

"I truly value what they provide in our commuities, but I disagree with them imposing their religious beliefs on everyone else."

In the 2014-15 budget year, $19.9 million in state and federal funds went toward supporting adoption agencies for adoption and foster care services, according to the state DHS. Nearly $10 million of that total went to faith-based agencies that would be covered under the religious objection bills.

The bills — HB 4188, 4189 and 4190 — now move to the state Senate for consideration. The same package of bills stalled in the Senate last year and Amber McCann, spokeswoman for Senate Majority Leader Arlan Meekhof, R-West Olive, said the subject hasn't been addressed by the GOP caucus yet.

Gov. Rick Snyder said last week during a call-in radio show with Michigan Public Radio that he had reservations about the bills and the impact it could have on children getting adopted.

Later in the week, he told reporters, He was in favor of children being adopted by "loving families" and "loving parents."

He didn't specify if that included same sex couples.

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The Faith Based Drama Of Selling Tiny Humans: Elizabeth Darling & George Bush

UPDATE: I have provided the original complaint of the Faith Based Sex Scandal, below.

As the child welfare community cheers the heralding of the Families First Act, allow me to drop my 2 cents.

Elizabeth Darling is taking over for Jerry Milner, which is a wonderful event.

It seems Elizabeth Darling, has quite a colorful background in child welfare fraud, to say the least.

As a disclaimer, I have not pulled the original complaint, filed by her ex-husband, pro se, allegedly accusing Elizabeth Darling of doing the nasty with George Bush, and actually named it the "Faith Based Sex Scandal", as I have provided an order of the court, below.

It also seems the Faith Based scam originated in Texas, before the model was nationally, and internationally, through the State Department with USAID, implemented.

Faith Based is the original pilot of privatization, which just so happened to be signed as an Executive Order, under George Bush, Sr.

OneStar Foundation

Faith Based funding, in a nut shell, privatized child welfare services to churches, mostly churches, where there are no civil rights, no FOIA, no audits, no questions asked because it always starts with the children because no one cares.

On the international side of Faith Based, you have Sam Brownback of the State Department, who has his own history of child welfare fraud.

Something tells me the old crew who colluded in privatizing the trafficking of tiny humans has been intentionally brought back, for a very special reason.

Something also tells me that this is going to take us to Michigan and Haiti.

Stay tuned.

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Trump Taps Elizabeth Darling to Lead Administration on Children, Youth, and Families

President Trump has announced that Elizabeth Darling is his choice to serve as the commissioner of the Administration on Children, Youth, and Families (ACYF), one of the top child welfare jobs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Elizabeth Darling,
the Faith Based Queen

The job would mark a return to the agency for Darling, who spent three years with ACYF under George W. Bush helping establish the HHS Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.

Since 2009 Darling has been CEO of the OneStar Foundation, a philanthropic entity that works to improve the capacity and performance of nonprofits in Texas. Before that, she was the chief operating officer of the Corporation for National and Community Services, which oversees the federal AmeriCorps service learning project.

If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Darling will take over the division of HHS that oversees two child welfare agencies:

• The Children’s Bureau, which among other things manages the multi-billion dollar IV-E child welfare entitlement, which just received a significant overhaul from Congress.
• The Family and Youth Services Bureau, a smaller section that makes grants related to pregnancy prevention and serving runaway or homeless youth.

ACYF itself is a part of the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), which also includes Head Start, the Office of Refugee Resettlement, the Office of Child Support Enforcement, and several other family services-related agencies.

The Children’s Bureau is led by Jerry Milner, who is currently serving in an interim role as commissioner until Darling is officially on the job. Milner, who was a civil servant at ACYF during the Bush administration, has been the public face of child welfare policy for the Trump administration, and recently penned an op-ed in The Chronicle of Social Changepromoting the administration’s call for a more flexible block grant option for states willing to forgo the protection of the IV-E entitlement structure.

Trump long ago nominated Lynn Johnson, executive director of the Jefferson County (Colorado) Department of Human Services, to head up ACF, the parent agency for all of this work. The Senate Finance Committee is scheduled to hold a confirmation hearing on Johnson next Tuesday.

For the time being, Darling will be the top child welfare official as HHS prepares to accommodate sweeping changes to the federal IV-E entitlement, which heretofore has reimbursed states mostly for costs related to foster care placements and adoption subsidies. The Family First Prevention Services Act, which became law last month, creates a slate of reimbursable front-end options to help states pay for efforts at addressing abuse and neglect without using foster care.

The bill also puts a two-week clock on federal funding for congregate care and group homes under the IV-E entitlement.

The law’s main provisions don’t kick in until October of 2019. But Congress set a deadline of October 2018 for HHS to establish a clearinghouse of allowable front-end services, one of the many areas in which the agency will need to provide guidance to states.

“The Families First Act is a complex piece of legislation that made significant changes to existing programs as well as created a new funding stream that carries extensive requirements,” said ACF spokesperson Monique Richards, in an email to Youth Services Insider. “The Children’s Bureau … is still in the process of analyzing the legislation in order to determine an implementation plan and timeline.”

Darling has state-level experience with many of the federal programs related to youth and family services. She was the deputy secretary for the Maryland Department of Human Resources, which oversees the states welfare, Medicaid, child welfare and child care programs.

Darling served at ACYF from 2001 to 2003, helping establish the HHS Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. Under the Bush administration, each cabinet-level agency with a focus on domestic work set up a faith-based outpost that connected to a central White House division.

CORRECTION, March 14: This article was updated to reflect that Jerry Milner was previously a civil servant at ACYF, and not an appointee of President Bush.

Elizabeth Darling Faith Based Sex Scandal Order Regarding George Bush by Beverly Tran on Scribd

Order 12803—Infrastructure Privatization
April 30, 1992

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to ensure that the United States achieves the most beneficial economic use of its resources, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. Definitions. For purposes of this order:

(a) "Privatization" means the disposition or transfer of an infrastructure asset, such as by sale or by long-term lease, from a State or local government to a private party.

(b) "Infrastructure asset" means any asset financed in whole or in part by the Federal Government and needed for the functioning of the economy. Examples of such assets include, but are not limited to: roads, tunnels, bridges, electricity supply facilities, mass transit, rail transportation, airports, ports, waterways, water supply facilities, recycling and wastewater treatment facilities, solid waste disposal facilities, housing, schools, prisons, and hospitals.

(c) "Originally authorized purposes" means the general objectives of the original grant program; however, the term is not intended to include every condition requires for a grantee to have obtained the original grant.

(d) "Transfer price" means:

          (i) the amount paid or to be paid by a private party for an infrastructure asset, if the asset is transferred as a result of a competitive bidding; of
          (ii) the appraised value of an infrastructure asset, as determined by the head of the executive department or agency and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, if the asset is not transferred as a result of competitive bidding.

(e) "State and local governments" means the government of any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States, and any country, municipality, city, town, township, local public authority, school district, special district, intrastate district, regional or interstate governmental entity, council of governments, and any agency or instrumentality of a local government, and any federally recognized Indian Tribe.

Sec. 2. Fundamental Principles. Executive departments and agencies shall be guided by the following objectives and principles:

(a) Adequate and well-maintained infrastructure is critical to economic growth. Consistent with the principles of federalism enumerated in Executive Order No. 12612, and in order to allow the private sector to provide for infrastructure modernization and expansion, State and local governments should have greater freedom to privatize infrastructure assets.

(b) Private enterprise and competitively driven improvements are the foundation of our Nation's economy and economic growth. Federal financing of infrastructure assets should not act as a barrier to the achievement of economic efficiencies through additional private market financing or competitive practices, or both.

(c) State and local governments are in the best position to assess the respond to local needs. State and local governments should, subject to assuring continued compliance with Federal requirements that public use be on reasonable and nondiscriminatory terms, have maximum possible freedom to make decisions concerning the maintenance and disposition of their federally financed infrastructure assets.

(d) User fees are generally more efficient than general taxes as a means to support infrastructure assets. Privatization transactions should be structured so as not to result in unreasonable increases in charges to users.

Sec. 3. Privatization Initiative. To the extent permitted by law, the head of each executive department and agency shall undertake the following actions:

(a) Review those procedures affecting the management and disposition of federally financed infrastructure assets owned by State and local governments and modify those procedures to encourage appropriate privatization of such assets consistent with this order;

(b) Assist State and local governments in their efforts to advance the objectives of this order; and

(c) Approve State and local governments' requests to privatize infrastructure assets, consistent with the criteria in section 4 of this order and, where necessary, grant exceptions to the disposition requirements of the "Uniform Administrative Requirements for Grants and Cooperative Agreements to State and Local Governments" common rule, or other relevant rules or regulations, for infrastructure assets; provided that the transfer price shall be distributed, as paid, in the following manner:

     (i) State and local governments shall first recoup in full the unadjusted dollar amount of their portion of total project costs (including any transaction and fix-up costs they incur) associated with the infrastructure assets involved;
     (ii) if proceeds remain, then the Federal Government shall recoup in full the amount of Federal grant awards associated with the infrastructure assets, less the applicable share of accumulated depreciation on such asset (calculating using the Internal Revenue Service accelerated depreciation schedule for the categories of assets in question); and
     (iii) finally, the State and local governments shall keep any remaining proceeds,

Sec. 4. Criteria. To the extent permitted by law, the head of an executive department or agency shall approve a request in accordance with section 3(c) of this order only if the grantee:

(a) Agrees to use the proceeds described in section 3(c)(iii) of this order only for investment in additional infrastructure assets (after public notice of the proposed investment), or for debt or tax reduction; and

(b) Demonstrates that a market mechanism, legally enforceable agreement, or regulatory mechanism will ensure that:
     (i) the infrastructure asset or assets will continue to be used for their originally authorized purposes, as long as needed for those purposes, even if the purchaser becomes insolvent or is otherwise hindered from fulfilling the originally authorized purposes; and
     (ii) user charges will be consistent with any current Federal conditions that protect users and the public by limiting the charges.

Sec. 5. Government-wide Coordination and Review. In implementing Executive Order Nos. 12291 and 12498 and OMB Circular No. A-19, the Office of Management and Budget, to the extent permitted by law and consistent with the provisions of those authorities, shall take action to ensure that the policies of the executive department and agencies are consistent with the principles, critiera, and requirements of this order. The Office of Management and Budget shall review the results of implementing this order and report thereon to the President 1 year after the date of this order.

Sec. 6. Preservation of Existing Authority. Nothing in this order is in any intended to limit any existing authority of the heads of executive departments and agencies to approve privatization proposals that are otherwise consistent with law.

Sec. 7. Judicial Review. This order is intended only to improve the internal management of the executive branch, and is not intended to create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable by a party against the United States, its agencies or instrumentalities, its officers or employees, or any other person.

George Bush
The White House,
April 30, 1992.

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