The Biden administration is trying to force a 120-year-old Christian ministry that serves children and families through adoption and foster care to surrender its deeply held beliefs on faith, family, and marriage. If the ministry refuses to place children in homes that violate its faith commitments, the federal government is insisting it can cut off critical funding for Holston United Methodist Home for Children.

 

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