Indiana CPS

An Indiana Christian Couple’s Fight over LGBTQ Shows Any Child Can Be Taken from their Parents

A Catholic couple’s fight with Indiana Child Services to raise their transgender son according to their faith provides a clear warning to all Christian parents that their children can be taken from them by their state’s child protective service if they do not accommodate their child’s gender preferences.

Fox News reported Indiana Child Services removed a child from his Catholic parents because they wouldn’t use his chosen name or pronouns that reflected his chosen gender orientation. They relocated the male child, who identifies as female, to a “gender-affirming” foster home after the child reported his parents continued to embrace him according to their faith that teaches sex was an unchanging characteristic created by God. Indian Child Services continued to keep the child in “gender-affirming” foster care after an investigation revealed there was no evidence of abuse or mistreatment as more states value the affirmation of a child’s transgender identity over a parent’s faith-based love of their children.

The parents are appealing to the Supreme Court, asking them to hold the state accountable for taking their child from their home because they raised and loved their child according to their faith.

The state removed the child from a Christian home because they value a parent’s affirmation of gender identity over faith. This marks a turning point that places every child in a faith-based home at risk in American society.

Christians must be careful not to treat this shocking decision as an isolated accident.

It’s an early example of a cultural trend that’s been at work for over a decade as Progressives have slowly adapted state and local laws that create LGBTQ protections that are designed to punish Christians for living according to God’s word. The Indiana case reveals what many Christian cultural watchdogs have warned for years as Progressives quietly transformed local and state laws to advance their agenda. Christian parents, pastors, and legislators must understand what has happened to anticipate how to protect families in the future.