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State of massachusetts rejected their application over religious beliefs and now they are suing the commonwealth over it. Im john roberts, welcome to wednesday. Gillian nice to be here on a beautiful blue sky day. John what a picture. Gillian im Gillian Turner in for sandra smith. Kitty and mike burke say they were turned down because of adherence to catholic teachings, a letter says they would not be affirming to a child who identified as lgbtqia plus. Comes as they struggle to accommodate 1500 children in the foster care system. Chief religion correspondent lauren green has been looking into all of this and joins us from new york. The issue is, can a secular government prevent someone from participating fully in a community because of their religious beliefs. Now, the Supreme Court has actually ruled in favor of religion in a similar case about two years ago. But the burkes ....
I kind of felt the state was back pedalling so that was concerning as well. you have a chance to articulate your views right now, and one of the questions i had yesterday, did the school board in middletown and two other counties in new jersey take this action to require parental notification of a switch in gender identity at the request of parents who were concerned about it or did you just look at the way the laws were going in the garden state and say you know what, that doesn t work for this school board. yeah, so this this discussion among our policy committee, i am the chair of, started over a year ago. we have become aware of some practices that were happening in school that were based on these guidelines and on the existing policy that had been in effect since 2019. and we had heard some, you know, anecdotal stories about kids who changed their gender, their name ....