The Trump administration granted South Carolina’s largest foster care agency a religious exemption wavier ensuring them that they can continue to place foster kids in Christian homes.
According to the Christian Post, last year, South Carolina’s governor Henry McMaster reached out to President Trump to ask for an exemption for Miracle Hill Ministries from the Health and Human Services rule that forbids foster-care organizations which receive federal funding to have a religious preference.
After almost a full year of conversations between the HHS and McMaster and an investigation into Miracle Hill’s religious convictions, the HHS concluded that forcing the ministry to adhere to the Obama-era regulation would be a violation of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The Religious Freedom Restoration Act was passed in 1993 and assures the protection of religious freedom.
In a letter to McMaster’s the HHS Office for Civil Rights wrote, “OCR specifically found that Miracle Hill’s sincere religious exercise would be substantially burdened by application of the religious nondiscrimination requirement” and would, therefore, be granted the exception.
The letter goes on to note that for the ministry will, however, have to adhere to anti-discrimination laws by referring non-Christian families to one of the nine other foster care agencies in their…
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