Christians, who are at risk of exclusion from fostering and adoption in several other states due to their beliefs about marriage and sex, have another shot at protection in Kansas thanks to Republicans who plan to override a recent veto from Democrat Gov. Laura Kelly.
The Adoption Conscience Act, which Kelly rejected on Monday, aims to preemptively protect families “with sincerely held religious or moral beliefs regarding sexual orientation or gender identity” from discrimination by the state’s authority on adoption and fostering.
HB 2311 not only explicitly prohibits the state’s children and family secretary from “adopting or enforcing” policies that would unfairly cut Christians out of the state child care system, but also creates a legal right for those families to seek “damages, injunctive relief,
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