Trump signs executive order combating discrimination against faith-based foster care providers

A new executive order signed by President Donald Trump seeks to combat “ridiculous woke policies that discriminate against Christians and families of faith” seeking to serve as foster parents.

Trump signed an executive orderThursday titled “Fostering the Future for American Children and Families.” The executive order laments that “Some jurisdictions and organizations maintain policies that discourage or prohibit qualified families from serving children in need as foster and adoptive parents because of their sincerely-held religious beliefs or adherence to basic biological truths.”

Trump ordered Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to “publish annually a scorecard that measures and is used to evaluate State-level achievement of key outcomes and metrics that reduce unnecessary entries into foster care” that evaluates states’ “partnerships and collaboration with appropriate non-governmental allies, including faith-based organizations” as well as several other factors.

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