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Vermont officials have issued a new policy that protects religious foster parents who object to gender and LGBTQ ideology. The guidance, issued on Feb. 18, states that a potential foster parent’s “endorsement or affirmation of specific identities,” or “use of particular vocabulary, prescribed language, or preferred pronouns related to gender identity, sexual orientation, or identity expression” are not required for conditioning of licensing. The policy also confirms that applicants’ “sincerely held personal, cultural, religious, moral, or philosophical beliefs” are not to be considered as deciding factors in the licensing process. The state also agreed to withdraw the revocations placed on the Wuotis and Gantts, two Christian foster families stripped of licensing for expressing their Christian belief that girls and boys cannot switch genders. Vermont officials revoked the Wuotis’ license in 2022 and the Gantt family in 2024 based on a statewide requirement that foster parents affirm a child’s chosen gender identity, regardless of the child’s biological sex. In 2024, Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) attorneys, representing the families, filed suit against the state, arguing that their First Amendment rights were violated. The case reached the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals after ADF appealed a lower court’s ruling. ADF Senior Counsel Johannes Widmalm-Delphonse called the state’s decision an “incredible victory” for foster care children in the state’s system. “No parent should be forced to lie to a vulnerable child about who they are, much less promote irreversible and life-altering procedures that don’t have any proven health benefits,” said Widmalm-Delphonse. “And, unfortunately, other loving families have been unable to open their homes to children in need just because of their Christian worldview. We commend Vermont for respecting the religious diversity of foster parents and ending its exclusionary policy that deprived children of opportunities to find loving homes.” Brian Wuoti, who is a pastor, and his wife, Katy, became foster parents in 2014 and have adopted two brothers from the foster care system. Bryan Gantt, also a pastor, and his wife, Rebecca, started fostering in 2016. The Gantts specialize in fostering children born with fetal alcohol syndrome and drug dependencies. Since fostering, the Gantts have adopted three children. The Wuotis and the Gantts expressed their gratitude in an ADF press release. “We’re thankful that common sense won out and that Vermont has changed its policy to put children’s interests above divisive ideologies,” said the Wuotis. “We’re grateful for one more opportunity to help give children a safe and loving home.” “There are more kids in the foster-care system than there are families to care for them,” the Gantts said. “Our focus throughout this case has been on the children who need stability and love above everything else. We’re overjoyed that Vermont is doing right by the children in the system.” Decision Magazine, founded by Billy Graham in 1960, works through its website and monthly magazine to communicate the Gospel, as well as inform and challenge readers about key cultural and Biblical issues. Decision is also a Contributing Publisher to Harbinger’s Daily.

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Consider how many of God’s greatest gifts to humanity flowed through the pipeline of Israel. Western civilization goes hand in hand with Judeo-Christian values. Many others also helped create the culture we now enjoy, including the Greeks and the Romans. But ultimately, the best part of the civilization built and bequeathed to us by our ancestors, rests on the shoulders of Abraham, Moses, and, most of all, Jesus. The idea of human rights and the dignity of each person did not originate with the Declaration of Independence, the Renaissance, the Magna Carta, or the Cyrus Cylinder. The foundation of our rights comes from our ancestors’ belief in Genesis 1:27. “So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.” All those who care about the kind of culture we live in — about our freedoms, our rights, and our amazing progress — should take this seriously. When we see each other as made-in-the-image-of-God special, it demands law and freedom, dignity and responsibility. The thing we call “Western civilization” is not perfect. But from the standpoint of human rights and the prosperity of all, it has been a stunning success over that which went before it. When US Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke at the February 2026 Munich Security Conference, he said, “We are part of one civilization — Western civilization. We are bound to one another by the deepest bonds that nations could share, forged by centuries of shared history, Christian faith, culture, heritage, language, ancestry, and the sacrifices our forefathers made together for the common civilization to which we have fallen heir.” At the same conference, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez belittled the Secretary’s speech as a “pure appeal to ‘Western culture.’” She used air quotes when she said “Western culture” as if it is either not real or not important. But that culture — that Judeo-Christian culture — serves as the protector of human rights and dignity. And it comes from the Bible. Genesis 1:27 serves as the great dignifier and the great equalizer of humanity. We must treat one another as special because, though fallen from the state in which He made us, we each still carry the vestige of God’s image. Jesus reinforced and magnified the idea of human consequence when He said in John 3:16, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” God created us in His image. And He loves us so much that He gave His only begotten Son so that we could have everlasting life. Another Jew, the Apostle Paul, wrote in Romans 5:8, “God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Even those who do not believe these statements need to know that our rights and freedoms flow from them. Getting away from them is not progress for the West, but death. Humans are special because we were made by God in His own image and, though we are not as He originally made us, He created a way for each of us to return to Him. Because this isn’t heaven, we can certainly improve Western civilization. But in the name of improvement, millions seem intent on its destruction. To make a broken car run again, it helps if the mechanic understands what made it run in the first place. To repair and improve Western civilization, we need to appreciate it, see its beauty, and understand the Source of that beauty. Tom Gilbreath is an author and a contributor to the Hal Lindsey Report.

This commentary is by Neil Ryan, a third-generation Vermont farmer and consultant helping brands and nonprofits in Corinth. Rural Vermont is more than a “forest block,” as defined by planners via geographic information system maps and rulemaking. Rural Vermont is a human institution created by generations of men and women who loved the land and their way of life. I am a third-generation Vermont farmer who has called three different farms in three Vermont towns home. Each of those farms would likely face significant new regulatory hurdles under Act 181 and the emerging revisions to Act 250, Vermont’s more-than-half-century-old land use and development law. READ MORE Most Vermonters have no idea what’s coming. My family started farming in Starksboro in 1981 with a dairy cow and a tent on an abandoned hill farm. My grandparents raised Highland cattle and Christmas trees and built for multifamily living. My aunt and uncle created Highland Sugarworks, pioneering specialty glass bottles for Vermont maple syrup and helping establish organic standards for the industry. They didn’t have to spend thousands navigating bureaucratic mazes. They simply did the hard work of farming. Under Act 181, which divides Vermont into mapped tiers that determine where Act 250 applies, none of this would ever have happened. Act 181 restructures Vermont’s land-use system by mapping the state into Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 designations. Tier 1 (1A and 1B) includes downtowns and designated growth centers where most housing is exempt from Act 250 review to encourage development. Tier 2 includes rural lands outside growth centers, where Act 250 review is triggered more broadly than under current law. Tier 3 designates lands identified through GIS mapping as the state’s highest conservation priorities, including core forest blocks, habitat connectors, significant wetlands and floodplains. Beginning Dec. 31, 2026, most development in Tier 3 — including potentially a single-family home — will require Act 250 review under conservation-focused criteria. In all areas outside Tier 1, construction of a road longer than 800 feet, or a road and driveways totaling more than 2,000 feet, triggers Act 250 jurisdiction under the new road-length rule. When I started out 20 years ago as a young farmer, I homesteaded on affordable land in Roxbury. I built a road, constructed a barn on the footprint of a 140-year-old foundation and drew water from a prior generation’s stone-lined well. Under Act 181, a young person probably could not do this. Act 181 makes it far harder for the next generation to homestead on the only affordable land left to them. Today, I raise beef cattle on 200 acres in Corinth and Orange that the regional planning commission has designated rural conservation land without my input. This land – slated for Tier 2 and Tier 3 restrictions – was Governor Deane C. Davis’s boyhood farm. Ancient roads through the farm connected to a Norwegian commune, a brick kiln and the early 20th century Maplewood Hotel with its bowling alley and swimming pool. My land has three vestigial sugarhouses, stone sheep pens from the 19th-century sheep boom and barbed wire fencing from when milk was shipped to the creamery. Planners call all of this a “forest block.” This is the profound ignorance at the heart of Act 181: distant planners with computer models decided they know better than the people who work the land. They see static categories — what they term “forest blocks” or “habitat connectors” — drawn on screens. I see 200 years of human stewardship creating a biodiverse mosaic of field and forest. Want to build a house for your children? Prepare to spend thousands of dollars and wait a year or two to hear if your application has been approved or denied. The accessory farm businesses that keep small farms viable? Farm stays aren’t clearly exempt. Events require permit review. Processing farm products could leave you in violation if 51% of a batch of applesauce came from your neighbor’s apples. Under Vermont law, an accessory on-farm business is a secondary commercial activity — such as lodging, events and retail sales — that must remain subordinate to agriculture, with at least 51% of gross income derived from products grown or raised on that farm. While permitted, these activities may trigger Act 250 review if new buildings or long access roads are involved, particularly in Tier 2 and Tier 3 areas. The math is brutal: Small diversified farmers cannot afford the permits, the time, the lawyers or the uncertainty. Act 181 exemptions in Tier 1A and 1B areas make it easier for corporate developers to build housing. The burden of restriction falls on rural landowners least able to bear it. Rural Vermont culture — the knowledge of working with land, the social patterns of multi-generational continuity — is being driven to extinction. When you make it insurmountable for new people to start farms, you break the chain of cultural transmission. When you lock rural land into regulatory categories, you erase human history and treat rural people as a problem to be solved. Vermont had 3.3 million acres of farmland in 1925. Today, we have a little over 500,000 acres. Legislators must repeal Act 181 or amend it radically. Exempt working farms enrolled in Vermont’s Use Value Appraisal (UVA) Program from Tier 3 restrictions. Repeal the 800-foot road rule or raise the threshold to prevent actual sprawl, not farm access. Restore full Act 250 exemption for all accessory farm businesses. Require landowner consent before Tier 3 designation — make it opt-in, not imposed. Extend timelines and improve notice — many landowners don’t even know their land has been restricted. Ground decisions in reality by walking the land before mapping it; the current draft maps are inaccurate. Vermonters, contact your legislators now. Attend Land Use Review Board hearings. Demand to know if your property has been mapped as Tier 3. Ask your representatives: Do you want farms in Vermont or a playground for the wealthy? Do you want rural communities with young people and families, or further rural decline? The final Tier 3 rules aren’t due until September 2026, but jurisdiction begins Dec. 31, 2026. Most landowners don’t know what’s coming. By the time they do, it will be too late. Small farms are a way of life that has sustained Vermont for generations and could sustain it for generations more — if we act now. Please help us pass this land down to the next generation with its possibilities intact. Read the story on VTDigger here: Neil Ryan: Save small farms from Act 181 .

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