Lydia and Heath Marvin, Christian foster parents from Woburn, Massachusetts, were stripped of their license after refusing to sign the state’s “LGBTQIA+ affirmation” policy.
Jim Hoft – The Gateway Pundit Oct 12, 2025
A Christian couple from Woburn, Massachusetts has been stripped of their foster care license after refusing to sign a state-mandated policy that forces parents to “affirm” a child’s LGBTQIA+ identity, regardless of their own deeply held religious beliefs.
According to CBS News, Lydia and Heath Marvin, parents of three teenagers, have opened their home to eight foster children under the age of four since 2020, including a medically fragile infant who lived with them for 15 months.
The couple says their Christian faith drives their calling to care for the fatherless.
“Our Christian faith, it really drives us toward that. James says that true undefiled religion is to care for the fatherless,” Heath told CBS News.
But in April, Massachusetts’ Department of Children and Families (DCF) revoked the Marvins’ foster license after they refused to sign the agency’s LGBTQIA+ Non-Discrimination Policy.
The policy, introduced in 2022, requires foster parents to “affirm” a child’s claimed gender identity, use their chosen pronouns, and support gender-neutral practices in clothing and behavior, mandates the Marvins say they could not in good conscience endorse.
“We asked, is there any sort of accommodation, can you waive this at all? We will absolutely love and support and care for any child in our home but we simply can’t agree to go against our Christian faith in this area. And, were ultimately told you must sign the form as is or you will be delicensed,” Lydia said.
Their appeal was denied, and now, the couple is considering the next legal steps. Two other Christian foster families have joined a federal lawsuit against DCF filed by the Massachusetts Family Institute and Alliance Defending Freedom.
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Last week, the Trump administration sent a letter to DCF, addressing the lawsuit and specifically mentioning the Marvins.
“These policies and developments are deeply troubling, clearly contrary to the purpose of child welfare programs, and in direct violation of First Amendment protections,” wrote Andrew Gradison, Acting Assistant Secretary for the Administration for Children and Families.
LGBTQ+ advocates argue the policy was developed to protect kids. Massachusetts foster parents also receive a monthly stipend.
“The state has an obligation to children to make sure that they’re safe and well protected. And foster parents, they’re not parents. Foster parents are temporary. They’re a stop gap to make sure children can safely go back to their families of origin,” said Polly Crozier, Director of Family Advocacy at GLBTQ Legal Advocates and Defenders.
Data collection by DCF is poor but a report by the Massachusetts Commission on LGBTQ youth suggests that roughly 30 percent of foster children in the state could identify as LGBTQ, similar to data collected in California and New York.
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in the 1930s Victor Rothschild chose his “apostles” from homosexials some had convictions against kids, he said when communism sweeps the world it will be with homosexuality Tony Blair was a big supporter of the agenda for global socialism
with a homosexual face
our children in schools are being indoctrinated into perversion, the BBC deliberately
employs and protects these people the latest pervert being emplyed is ryland clark
the next step us the legalisation of pedophulia being trialed in israel
You just have to accept you cant help
And stop voting & paying for
Government (Mind Control)
Which is feeding off you.
Like the fire triangle
Heat Oxygen Fuel
Take away an element, and its gone.
Enough of you just have to realise this.
At one time this kind of distasteful behaviour would prevent you from adopting. Now it’s compulsory? And I think those two young boys adopted by Elton John and his male lover are especially at risk of abuse. Then there are the Hollywood names who dress their adopted kids as if they’re the opposite sex. The unpleasant Charlize Theron (nice to look at but treats men really bad), who dresses her black or half-caste adopted son in dresses, is seriously at risk if he hates her for his treatment. If it damages him badly enough I think one day he might brutally murder her in his late-teens or early-twenties.
Sounds to me that the deranged bureaucrackheads at the Massachusetts’ Department of Children and Families should be lobotomized with bricks and claw hammers.
“The [criminally insane] policy, introduced in 2022, requires foster parents to “affirm” a child’s claimed gender identity, use their chosen pronouns, and support gender-neutral practices in clothing and behavior” … The only affirmation some deranged kid should get with any of that idiocy is from the leather end of a belt…while the frothingly demented adults promoting any of that agenda of degradation and destruction should be chased through the streets and beaten to death.
Good for the Marvins for, first and foremost, taking in children who probably never should have been conceived and for taking a stand.
“Two other Christian foster families have joined a federal lawsuit against DCF filed by the Massachusetts Family Institute and Alliance Defending Freedom.”
There you have it. The ‘ Mass. Family Institute’ is involved, you know this is an
orchestrated operation.These type cases that challenge ZOG agenda are pursued to create the appearance that legitimate opposition exists and more importantly, in the end, to establish legal precedent in favor of the agenda. As soon as you see the words ‘Family institute’, ‘Alliance’ and ‘Defending Freedom’ it’s obvious that it’s controlled op. None of these organizations would exist without kosher approved agents in place to run them.
Phunny Pharm retards are just doing their job against us inmates. ..for now.
Addiendum- The family involved here may be decent people who foster children and genuinely believe in their position, but are being dragged into this controversy/case so that sinister forces can use them for political gain.