Training All Children – All Families

By Anthony Moll
March 7th, 2011 at 4:14 pm

The Human Rights Campaign

The following is from Rob Woronoff, Child Welfare Consultant and All Children – All Families Trainer, and is sponsored by the Midwest Foster Care and Adoption Association:

My phone rang one afternoon in 2005, while I was the LGBTQ director with the Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) in Washington, DC. The call was from a reporter from the Kansas City Star in Kansas City, MO. She wanted to know what I and CWLA thought of a ruling recently made by a Kansas City judge which upheld the Missouri Department of Social Service’s (MDSS) decision not to grant a foster care license to lesbian, specifically because she was a lesbian. The woman, Lisa Johnston, held a degree in child development and had worked for many years with abused and neglected children. The judge even referred to her as “exceptionally” qualified to be foster parent before siding with the state to deny her a license. I told the reporter that Missouri had no law or policy that would prevent the state from licensing a lesbian foster parent. The reporter relayed to me that MDSS had told her that the denial of the license was based on an “unwritten rule.” As someone who has worked for many years on issues facing LGBT youth and families involved with the child welfare system, I had to admit that this was the first time I’d been presented with a situation based on a something called an unwritten rule. I then wondered what other types of unwritten rules might be used to make licensing and placement decisions by the MDSS. (No redheads, no people who like asparagus. Where does this kind of thing end?)

Not really knowing what to make of an unwritten rule, I was nevertheless curious about what might be the legal or policy foundation for something so unquantifiable. The reporter said she’d been told it was based on the state’s sodomy law. I guessed that news of the US Supreme Court’s decision in Lawrence v. Texas in 2003 which found sodomy laws to be unconstitutional had been slow to make its way to Missouri. Eventually, the ACLU filed suit on behalf of Ms. Johnston and the state ultimately backed down, taking its sodomy law with it. (I remained curious about that unwritten rule thing. Can an unwritten rule be torn up? How does one know when it’s no longer there? Anyway…)

Fast forward to March 2011 and I’m standing in front of more than 70 child welfare professionals in Kansas City who had dedicated an entire day to learning more about HRC’s All Children – All Families initiative.

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When you see the sort of stuff that is under-foot, us Believers can only say "Come Quickly Lord Jesus".  To see what I am talking about, tie THIS story into your thinking process-

Tuesday February 3, 2009
United Nations Population Fund Leader Says Family Breakdown is a Triumph for Human Rights
By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman

NOTE- What the Communist Manifesto has to say on the subject. Same thing? I certainly think so.

The way this is connecting together in my American hick mind is- Family Breakdown=  Human Rights= Communism.  CPS and their UNIONS are in this to their necks, and I ain't loving it. 

"Destroy the family, you destroy the country." -Vladimir Ilyich Lenin