{"id":2574,"date":"2021-11-18T16:57:17","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T21:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/au.test\/the-latest\/press\/hhs-foster-care-waivers\/"},"modified":"2021-11-18T16:57:17","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T21:57:17","slug":"hhs-foster-care-waivers","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/the-latest\/press\/hhs-foster-care-waivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans United Applauds Biden Administration For Rescinding Trump-Era Exemptions That Authorized Religious Discrimination In Federally Funded Foster Care Programs"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cRescinding these damaging Trump waivers is a critical first step. The Department of Health and Human Services should never allow taxpayer-funded foster care agencies to apply a religious litmus test to discriminate against Catholic, Jewish, LGBTQ and other families who want to help children who are in foster care. This includes people like our client Aimee Maddonna \u2013 a Catholic mother of three who was rejected by a federally funded foster care agency in South Carolina because she\u2019s the \u2018wrong\u2019 religion,&#8221; said AU President and CEO Rachel Laser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2435,"parent":0,"template":"","issue_tax":[40,6,8,5],"class_list":["post-2574","press","type-press","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","issue_tax-religious-discrimination-in-social-services","issue_tax-discrimination-in-name-of-religion","issue_tax-lgbtq-rights","issue_tax-religious-racial-equality"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/2574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/2574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"issue_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_tax?post=2574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}