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HHS rescinds Trump-era waivers allowing child welfare agencies to discriminate against same-sex parents and others

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Miracle Hill Ministries, wished not to abide by infringed upon their rights under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.But the exemption also granted agencies significant leeway in who they discriminate against, such as allowing a Christian adoption agency refusing to place a child with a Jewish, Catholic, or Muslim family, or permitting an agency to discriminate against a single foster parent (even a widow/widower) or a parent who is currently part of a couple but who has been divorced and remarried on the basis of the agency’s alleged “religious beliefs” that two-parent families are preferable or that divorce is socially unacceptable.But civil rights advocates argued that the waivers, beyond being overly broad, violated the intention.

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