A couple from Massachusetts claims the Commonwealth has barred them from fostering children because their Catholic faith would prevent them from affirming a child's homosexuality or gender identity.
Mike and Catherine Burke of Southampton filed a lawsuit(Burke v.Walsh) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts on Tuesday with the help of the religious liberty legal organization Becket Law, claiming the state denied them the opportunity to foster children because they hold Catholic views on gender, sexuality, and marriage.
Seven Massachusetts State Police troopers reinstated by an arbitrator never should have been suspended for refusing to take a coronavirus vaccine in the first place, a lawyer representing them said.
"Former Governor Charlie Baker had no authority to mandate the experimental COVID shots and deny religious accommodations to these state troopers. Let us never forget this insanity," Liberty Counsel chairman Mat Staver said in a written statement Tuesday, August 8.
