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    Kelly brings sharp shift on LGBTQ foster kids

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    By KMAN Staff on August 5, 2019 State News
    Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly, left, speaks to reporters about food assistance for the needy as Secretary for Children and Families Laura Howard listens during a news conference, Thursday, July 11, 2019, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kansas. Kelly on Thursday dropped a policy that allowed several thousand Kansas adults to keep receiving food assistance after failing to meet a work requirement, reversing course days after the state’s Republican attorney general threatened to file a lawsuit. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

    TOPEKA — Kansas’ child welfare agency has drafted guidelines urging foster parents to allow LGBTQ kids in their care to “express themselves as they see themselves.”

    The move has riled conservatives a little more than a year after the state granted legal protections to faith-based adoption agencies that do not place children in LGBTQ homes.

    The Department for Children and Families issued its draft guidance in mid-July, six months after Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly took office.

    It called for foster homes to recognize LGBTQ children by their preferred identities.

    Conservatives saw it as a directive meant to reshape foster families’ lives. They also worry it’s an attempt to skirt a 2018 law that Kelly doesn’t like that protects faith-based adoption agencies refusing to place children in homes violating their religious beliefs.

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