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Franklin Graham, the influential Christian evangelist who leads both Samaritan's Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, named after his legendary father, is condemning a state agenda in Massachusetts to promote transgenderism among children as "tragic."
The extremist ideology also has earned the scorn of President Donald Trump, who has taken numerous executive actions to reduce the medical industry's lucrative campaign to provide body-altering drugs and mutilating surgeries to children in the unsupported belief that a boy can become a girl, or vice versa.
The latest fight is over an agenda by state officials in Massachusetts to force foster parents to endorse, promote and facilitate the leftist agenda on children.
"These Christian foster parents in Massachusetts cannot agree to 'promote,' 'support,' and 'affirm' a child's 'gender identity or expression'—so the state wants to revoke their license," Graham wrote on social media.
"How tragic! And Massachusetts has a foster parent shortage with more than 1,400 children waiting to be placed with a family. The Schrock family and the Jones family are pushing back legally and asking the court to protect their rights.
"The Schrocks have cared for 28 foster children in the last 6 years and had their license revoked in June after telling the state that they could not comply with its policy. The state plans to remove the Jones' 17-month-old foster daughter from their home, where she has lived for over a year, because they wouldn't sign the agreement."
A report at Fox News explains the two families are suing the state for its threats to withdraw their foster care licenses because they won't promote the false belief of transgenderism. According to the science, being male or female in embedded in the human body down to the DNA level and does not change.
The lawsuit was filed only days ago on behalf of the two families who "say they have either lost or are at risk of losing their licenses because of the policy, which requires foster parents to sign agreements to 'promote,' 'support' and 'affirm' a child's gender identity or expression."
The case charges that state officials are willfully violating constitutional protections for religious beliefs.
The two families are working with the ADF, a religious liberty legal group, on the case against the state.
The case charges the state is violating the First and 14th Amendments and "is harming children."
"DCF [Department of Children and Families] is even willing to remove young infants and toddlers with no understanding of 'gender identity' from loving homes because of their Christian beliefs, creating more trauma for the most vulnerable members of society," the case charges.
