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Subject: South Carolina is Lobbying to Allow Discrimination Against Jewish
Parents
This story is so insane it deserves it’s own email. So here it is… South
Carolina Lobbying to Allow Discrimination Against Jewish Parents By Akela Lacy
(Akela is a new fellow at The Intercept, you can follow her here .) The Trump
administration is considering whether to grant a South Carolina request that
would effectively allow faith-based foster care agencies in the state the
ability to deny Jewish parents from fostering children in its network. The
argument, from the state and from the agency, is that the federal Religious
Freedom Restoration Act should not force a Protestant group to work with Jewish
people if it violates a tenet of their faith.
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This story is so insane it deserves it’s own email. So here it is…
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South Carolina Lobbying to Allow Discrimination Against Jewish Parents
By Akela Lacy (Akela is a new fellow at The Intercept,
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The Trump administration is considering whether to grant a South Carolina
request that would effectively allow faith-based foster care agencies in the
state the ability to deny Jewish parents from fostering children in its
network. The argument, from the state and from the agency, is that the federal
Religious Freedom Restoration Act should not force a Protestant group to work
with Jewish people if it violates a tenet of their faith.
The case being made by South Carolina is an extension of the debate around
RFRA, which is more commonly associated with discrimination against LGBTQ
people, but by no means applies exclusively to that group.
If granted, the exemption would allow Miracle Hill Ministries, a Protestant
social service agency working in the state’s northwest region, to continue
receiving federal dollars while “recruiting Christian foster families,” which
it has been doing since
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1988, according to its website. That discrimination would apply not just to
Jewish parents, but also to parents who are Muslim, Catholic, Unitarian,
atheist, agnostic or other some other non-Protestant Christian denomination.
Miracle Hill covers Greenville, Pickens and Spartanburg counties, and its
foster care services have becoming increasingly in demand as an opioid epidemic
has torn through a generation of young parents.
The request has been made to the Department of Health and Human Services. The
agency
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has been quietly taken over by hardline evangelical activists, a perk for
their unwavering support of Trump’s presidential bid and his administration.
Miracle Hill
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has told the local press that while they themselves will not place children
with families who don’t meet their standards, they refer them to agencies that
will. But as the provider with the region’s highest quality of service, making
referrals means sending people to deal directly with the state Department of
Social Services, or to agencies in other parts of the state that are several
hours away by car.
Beth Lesser is a Jewish parent who was turned away by Miracle Hill.
“Understand, in the upstate of South Carolina, if you want to be a foster
parent or a mentor, there’s DSS, which is the government. And there’s Miracle
Hill. There really isn’t anybody else,” Lesser told The Intercept.
When she still lived in Greenville, Lesser participated in a three-day training
co-hosted by Miracle Hill and Fostering Great Ideas, another regional child
welfare agency. On the third day, two officials running the training, David
White of Fostering Great Ideas, as well as a Miracle Hill representative, told
the group that non-Protestants wouldn’t be able to mentor with Miracle Hill,
let alone foster a child.
“I’ve never felt that sort of discrimination before,” she said. “Once they get
them in one of their group homes, they don’t let non-Christian Protestants
mentor, them, foster them, or anything.” Lesser couldn’t recall the name of
Miracle Hill representative, but White confirmed the exchange to The Intercept,
saying that they were explaining Miracle Hill’s policy, and that his agency,
FGI, does not itself discriminate. Miracle Hill did not respond to requests for
comment.
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