{"id":2846,"date":"2018-07-11T18:59:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T18:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democrats.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/11\/house-appropriations-committee-passes-amendment-discriminating-against-lgbtq-families\/"},"modified":"2018-07-11T18:59:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T18:59:00","slug":"house-appropriations-committee-passes-amendment-discriminating-against-lgbtq-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/house-appropriations-committee-passes-amendment-discriminating-against-lgbtq-families\/","title":{"rendered":"House Appropriations Committee Passes Amendment Discriminating Against LGBTQ Families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><span id=\"m_-5940979974168071634gmail-docs-internal-guid-3acf1789-8aab-c0c0-caa7-bcb4ba662b3f\">Today, the House Appropriations Committee passed an amendment allowing taxpayer-funded adoption agencies to deny LGBTQ families the ability to adopt a child based on religious objection. In response, DNC LGBTQ Media Director Lucas Acosta released the following statement:<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span id=\"m_-5940979974168071634gmail-docs-internal-guid-3acf1789-8aab-c0c0-caa7-bcb4ba662b3f\">&ldquo;House Republicans are pandering t0 their far-right base at the expense of LGBTQ people and children in need of a home. Rather than focusing on empowering families or uniting children with their parents, Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee voted to give child welfare agencies a license to discriminate against qualified potential parents. <\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span id=\"m_-5940979974168071634gmail-docs-internal-guid-3acf1789-8aab-c0c0-caa7-bcb4ba662b3f\">&ldquo;Across the country, LGBTQ candidates are running for office and taking a stand against the Trump-GOP agenda, which seeks to roll back the progress we have made. In November, voters will stand together in the face of this bigotry and hate and elect Democrats up and down the ticket.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the House Appropriations Committee passed an amendment allowing taxpayer-funded adoption agencies to deny LGBTQ families the ability to adopt a child based on religious objection. In response, DNC LGBTQ Media Director Lucas Acosta released the following statement: &nbsp; &ldquo;House Republicans are pandering t0 their far-right base at the expense of LGBTQ people and children <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>House Appropriations Committee Passes Amendment Discriminating Against LGBTQ Families - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/house-appropriations-committee-passes-amendment-discriminating-against-lgbtq-families\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-07-11T18:59:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/house-appropriations-committee-passes-amendment-discriminating-against-lgbtq-families\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/house-appropriations-committee-passes-amendment-discriminating-against-lgbtq-families\/\",\"name\":\"House Appropriations Committee Passes Amendment Discriminating Against LGBTQ Families - 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