Americans United applauded the June 5 introduction of the Every Child Deserves a Family (ECDF) Act, proposed legislation that will ensure that taxpayer-funded adoption, foster care and child welfare agencies don’t discriminate against children, families and individuals on the basis of religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or marital status.

Trump administration officials and their allies in the Religious Right argue that their discriminatory policies protect 'religious freedom.' They don’t. In fact, government-supported discrimination makes a mockery of that principle by converting religious freedom into a weapon that causes harm.

The claim that Miracle Hill is not discriminating is absurd on its face. The classic definition of discrimination is treating someone unfavorably because of factors about themselves – their race, their gender, their religion, their country of origin, their sexual expression, etc. That is exactly what happened to Aimee Maddonna.