WASHINGTON _ U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids has urged her Republican colleagues from Kansas to speak out against a Trump administration policy that will enable faith-based adoption services to turn away same-sex couples.
Davids, the only Democrat in the Kansas delegation and one of nine LGBTQ members of Congress, sent a letter Tuesday asking GOP members to use their relationships with President Donald Trump to help reverse the policy.
"As a member of the LGBTQ community myself, I cannot overstate the material harm this proposed rule would do. Preventing qualified, capable, and loving parents from fostering or adopting children in need of a home based on the parents' sexual orientation or gender identity is cruel and baseless," wrote Davids, the first LGBTQ person to represent Kansas at the federal level.
