Help Defend Jessica Bates, a Mom Denied the Chance to Adopt Because of Her Faith

Tens of thousands of children throughout the country need loving and stable families. But the United States is currently facing a shortage of loving foster care and adoptive homes, and the nation is facing a crisis.

In Oregon, hundreds of children are up for adoption and desperately need someone to care for them, and yet the state is putting their needs second to politics. 

For Oregon, a loving and stable home isn’t enough.

They’re requiring that prospective adoptive parents agree with the state’s views on radical gender ideology.

They’re turning down anyone who won’t speak contrary to her beliefs and lie to a child about his or her sex or who won’t take children to events like Pride parades.

This is exactly the situation Jessica Bates faces in Oregon.

Oregon officials are preventing Jessica from adopting any child because of her Christian beliefs—despite the fact that the state accepts people of different religious and cultural backgrounds to pair children with families who are well-suited to each other.

It’s a blatant act of religious discrimination, and it must end.

In 2022, the Department reported that 8,000 children touched Oregon’s foster care system. Many of these children are still waiting for their forever homes.

We've taken on Jessica’s case to ensure that Oregon does not unlawfully bar Jessica or other people of faith from adoption—opening the door for more children to be welcomed into forever homes.

As a non-profit, this case is only possible because of support from people like you. Will you consider a gift of any size today to help defend religious liberty and protect the “least of these”?

You can help children in need today.