Trump Administration's New Rule Would Exclude LGBT Families

The Trump administration is finally going through on a rule that would affect the evangelical community greatly, a group that Trump has a very loyal support of.

His administration on Friday proposed a rule that would allow faith-based foster care and adoption agencies, mostly those who are Christian and Catholic, continue to get taxpayer funding even if they exclude LGBT families and others from their services based on religious beliefs.

The announcement comes with sharp backlash from both Democratic lawmakers and LGBTQ advocacy groups. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) said that the Trump administration is working to "implement cruel and discriminatory policies and wasting taxpayer dollars in its obsessive pursuit."

The concern of many evangelical voters has been that Democrats have unnecessarily imposed policies that were not faith-based and felt that it went against their core mission to include only those who are part of their faith. This was part of the religious freedom they were talking about.

This rule would redo an Obama-era rule that included sexual orientation as a protected trait under anti-discrimination protections. However, many knew that once Trump got into the Oval Office that this was going to be one of the rules that he would scale back on, because it was important to him to please religious voters and have them choose who they would support and not support.

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops said that the Obama-era rule had restricted the work of faith-based organizations, and that it was unfair and served no one.

The Family Research Council, which is a conservative advocacy group, said that charities will no longer have to choose between "abandoning their faith or abandoning homeless children."