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The Green Mountain State will no longer consider if foster-parent applicants’ sincerely held religious beliefs embrace the state’s views about gender identity and sexuality when determining whether to grant a license.
Under pressure from a lawsuit challenging a 2023 law restricting life-affirming pregnancy centers, Vermont Gov. Phil Scott signed a bill repealing those restrictions, allowing the centers to continue providing medical services, including abortion-pill reversal.
Bishop John McDermott addressed the decision to file and apologized to victims of clergy abuse.
Father McDermott has been serving as administrator of the Burlington Diocese since October of last year.
The lawsuit, filed by Mid Vermont Christian School, a K-12 school in the town of Quechee, argues that the ban is a violation of the school’s First Amendment rights.
The legislation does not clearly define what the state considers untrue or misleading but has several subsections accusing pro-life pregnancy centers of engaging in such conduct.
The Green Mountain State withstood a ‘historic’ rainstorm, and more rain is forecast.
Ten states and Washington, D.C., have already legalized assisted suicide across the country and 12 states are considering legislation in 2023.
Bill would provide East Coast ‘option’ for terminally ill out-of-state residents who want to end their lives legally with a lethal-drugs prescription.
According to the senator who plans to introduce the legislation, the proposal ‘tries to make clear there [will be] no confidentiality’ exception, regardless of the context in which the clergy member becomes aware of the information.
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