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by VDC staff
A Vermont couple has regained their foster care license following a legal dispute with state officials over required LGBTQ-related training, according to a report by Fox News.
Melinda Antonucci, 45, and her husband, Casey Mathieu, 43, reached a settlement with the Vermont Department for Children and Families after their foster care license was revoked amid disagreements over gender-related policies involving children.
According to Fox News reporters Louis Casiano and Michael Dorgan, the couple said the state required them to complete LGBTQ training as part of the foster licensing process. The training included information about medical and social gender transitions for minors.
The couple objected to participating in certain aspects of the training, citing their personal beliefs. Their license was subsequently revoked, prompting legal action.
The lawsuit was filed with the support of the Center for American Liberty, which argued the state improperly imposed ideological requirements on foster parents.
“Vermont tried to turn foster licensing into an ideological screening process,” said attorney Josh Dixon, who represented the couple, in comments reported by Fox News. He said the state conditioned foster care participation on agreement with specific viewpoints.
As part of the settlement, Antonucci and Mathieu’s foster care license has been restored, allowing them to resume fostering children in Vermont.
Fox News reported the case highlights broader national debates over parental rights, foster care policies, and gender identity requirements.
State officials have not publicly detailed the terms of the settlement, and it was not immediately clear whether any policy changes were made as part of the resolution.
The couple said they hope their case will help protect the rights of foster parents with differing beliefs while continuing to provide homes for children in need.
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Categories: Court, Race and Division, State Government
Trump banned DEI and other LGBTQ training in Jan. 25, how is it that foster care agencies are still requiring LGBTQ training?
Glad to hear you Melinda and Casey have successfully challenged the foster care system on this.
Another example of the Left not obeying regulations or laws they don’t agree with, just doing what they want
Children are not safe in Vermont. We need a better plan.
Children are most definitely not safe in Vermont. I worked for DCF and the state as a whole is entrenched in DEI and trans gender ideology. They are committed 100 percent and force DEI training on employees.
Explain to me again, how this state ended up on the highway to HELL so quickly?
High population of boomer, back to the land people from other places and their children combined with a disturbing and unprecedented amount of atheism.
Well, it wasn’t organic, I can tell you that for sure. And because our church institutions are terribly flawed and our people wildly uneducated of the Bible…..it’s a pretty easy take over of a very small population of live and let live people that have no inkling of hoe people could be so off and diabolical. Then with programming and pride they are totally controlled, pride goeth before the fall.
The Catholic Church has many great people in and of the church, but the church also has some serious issues, pedophillia being only one of them.
The UCC church is lead by organizers, which are wittingly or unwittingly cultural Marxists at best.
And even my own group seems to be mired in debt, overhead, following the United Nations agenda 2030 rather than Jesus Christ.
So as many know Vermont is the least churched state in the nation. It’s ok to believe in witches, as detailed in a VT digger article of late, so it’s not that people don’t believe in the spiritual world….they just don’t know and aren’t on team Jesus. They are fine with going to quermunion, but not communion.
They are ok with watching and allowing our children take in interfamilial porn, but not read about how the Bible talks about it being not a good long term strategy to sleep with your step parents or step siblings. When I read about that in the Bible I was like why would they talk about this? Why, because it was happening all over the place.
Because you see it seems apparent now that the new world order is the same as the old world order.
Many are wise that God has a much better plan, but some not so much. So we look to the state to be our God, our provider….and our kids get put into foster care promoting lust, schooled in promoting lust and filled with lust and we wonder why our children are depressed and struggling.
It isn’t a safe environment for children in Vermont.
I hope these foster parents aren’t being put on a silent black list at DCF. Do you think they would hold a grudge against the couple for standing firm and never put any kids into their care?