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and here’s snopes verifying this, since no big media outlets are bothering to cover it

The amendment appears on a funding bill for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education. If it remains in the final bill, the amendment would cut 15% of federal adoption funding to states and localities that penalize adoption agencies that refuse to place children in families that conflict with the agency’s “sincerely held religious beliefs or convictions.” 

it hasn’t happened yet, so there’s still time to reach out to your representatives about it

also, i can guarantee you that no big media outlets are ever not bothering to cover huge stories that a lot of people care about

“Calling it a “license to discriminate,” the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) said the amendment would have “a sweeping, harmful impact in child welfare services by enabling discrimination against LGBTQ people, same-sex couples, interfaith couples, single parents, married couples in which one prospective parent has previously been divorced, or other qualified parents to whom an agency has an objection.”” -Snopes