Faith-Based Agencies Are Using Taxpayer Dollars To Reject Qualified, Loving People Who Want To Be Foster Parents. Americans United Is Working To Stop It.

Liz Hayes

Kelly Easter grew increasingly concerned last year as she watched news coverage of vulnerable refugee children fleeing violence, natural disasters and poverty in Central America and arriving without parents or guardians at the United States’ southern border.

Although the start of the COVID-19 pandemic significantly reduced global migration for several months in the spring and early summer of 2020, the number of people trying to enter the U.S. was rising again by August 2020. And those numbers skyrocketed to record levels in 2021.

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Americans United & the National Women’s Law Center file suit to challenge Missouri’s abortion bans.

Abortion bans violate the separation of church and state. Americans United and the National Women’s Law Center—the leading experts in religious freedom and gender justice—have joined forces with thirteen clergy from six faith traditions to challenge Missouri’s abortion bans as unconstitutionally imposing one narrow religious doctrine on everyone.


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