Kentucky to Baptist Kids Agency: Place Kids in LGBTQ Homes or Lose Your Funding

Notice here that what’s at stake is a federal regulation that was modified by President Trump, but which gives the states leeway—and where the Kentucky legislature has not apparently clarified which way that leeway ought to go. So it’s a mess that’s brought up by our nation’s dependence on bureaucracies to determine policy instead of legislatures.

So if it’s important to you to be responding to actual laws that go through the legislative process, and not just be spun around like a doll by the bureaucracies of the state and nation, you’re going to want to support legislatures that seriously curtail the power of the bureaucracies. Obviously there will be a TON of pushback on that.

They shouldn’t be taking gov’t money anyway.

[WallyMorris]

They shouldn’t be taking gov’t money anyway.

It isn’t just taking money. If you read the article unless you sign the agreement you have no access to any children in state foster care in KY.

Mark: I understand that aspect of the situation. My point is that receiving gov’t money in any form complicates this entire issue. The same will eventually be true of the many Christian colleges which receive, either directly or indirectly, gov’t money. Perhaps, in this area at least, Christian organizations should follow Hillsdale College’s example.

I suspect that one reason Christian colleges accept gov’t money is because their financial base is not as strong/wealthy as many other organizations. Hillsdale has a strong financial base built over many years and is almost “one-of-a-kind” in secular education, so many people can direct funds to that one institution. However, there are many Christian colleges appealing to basically the same donor base, which limits the amount of money available to any one institution. Therefore many Christian schools seek and accept gov’t money in order to keep enrollment up and stay open. Eventually, as gov’t requirements become more demanding and intrusive, these Christian schools will have to decide which is more important: Biblical principle or gov’t money. By that time the leadership of those schools may not have the Biblical conviction to be that concerned about Biblical principle.

Mark brings up a good point; the state needs people to affordably bring foster children to adoptive parents. The church would like to use this as an opportunity to reach out. It’s a hard choice where the powers that be in government seem to be trying to insist that anybody who wants to help in this process has to toe the line for liberal mores.