04/13/2023 / By Ethan Huff
An Oregon mother of five was denied an adoption of two young children in need this week after she revealed to the state that her Christian religion would not allow her to take those children in for a “sex change” in the event that they decided to become transgenders.
Despite the fact that there are thousands of orphan children in need across Oregon, the mother was told that she must agree to whatever the adopted children in question demand concerning their sexuality – even if it means cutting off body parts and taking hormone-damaging pharmaceuticals.
“Oregon’s Department of Human Services apparently places an implacable commitment to gender ideology above the needs of the thousands of children in its care,” said Quena González, senior director of government affairs at Family Research Council, about the situation.
(Related: The Beaver State recently declared itself to be a sanctuary state where underage children from around the world can come to get abortions and sex changes without parental consent.)
The mother in question, Jessica Bates, lost her husband to a serious car accident in 2017. Bates is the birth mother of five children between the ages of 10 and 17, and she says she felt inspired to adopt two more based on the Bible’s commandment “to visit orphans and widows in their affliction” (James 1:27).
Bates also volunteers twice a week at a pro-life pregnancy resource center.
When Bates first notified Oregon’s foster care system about her desire to adopt, officials at the state’s Department of Human Services helped her fill out the application. She was later told that part of the state-mandated instructions for adoption include unequivocally supporting a foster child’s desire to become transgender.
In order to be a good adoptive parent, Bates was told by an instructor within the Resource and Adoptive Family (RAFT) program, she would have