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“All the kids who come into our house have left an impact on us," say Travis and Michael VanZant, who have fostered 20 children thanks to an agency in Tennessee.
A new rule from the Department of Health and Human Services requires that these children be placed in supportive homes.
Critics contend LGBTQ+ children could be placed in homes hostile to their sexual and gender identity.
The Arkansas supreme court on Thursday upheld a lower court ruling that said gays and lesbians cannot be barred from the foster care system.
Kelly Easter of Nashville says a faith-based agency under contract to the government turned her away simply because she's a lesbian.
One day after the Arkansas supreme court struck down a state ban on gay foster parents, Gov. Mike Huckabee on Friday urged the legislature to pass a law reinstating it.
Critics say the bill opens to the door to unsafe homes for LGBTQ+ children.
LGBTQ+ advocates are relieved the court didn't establish a broad right to discriminate, but some call the decision troubling.
The case centers on the city of Philadelphia ending its contract with a Catholic agency that rejects prospective LGBTQ parents.
Now that a Missouri law banning same-sex sexual contact has been struck from the books, the state's attorney general says he will drop his case against a Kansas City lesbian, Lisa Johnston (pictured on right) is suing for the right to become a foster parent.
