Vermont’s Gender Ideology Retreat: A Conciliar Compromise That Betrays Christ the King
Summary
EWTN News reports that the Vermont Department for Children and Families (DCF) settled a lawsuit with four Christian foster parents by revoking a policy that required them to affirm a child’s chosen gender identity and sexuality as a condition of licensing. The policy, which instructed foster parents to use preferred pronouns and support LGBTQ+ identities even if “uncomfortable,” was challenged as a violation of free speech and religious freedom. The settlement reinstates the parents’ licenses and bars DCF from considering “sincerely held personal, cultural, religious, moral, or philosophical beliefs” in licensing decisions or requiring “endorsement or affirmation of specific identities.” Alliance Defending Freedom hailed this as a victory for children and religious diversity. The article frames the issue as a balance between state mandates and parental conscience, wholly within the naturalistic paradigm of “rights” discourse, utterly silent on the supernatural order, the Social Kingship of Christ, and the intrinsic evil of gender ideology as a rebellion against God’s created order.
Thesis: This article exemplifies the conciliar sect’s systematic surrender to secularism, treating a grave moral evil—gender ideology—as a mere policy dispute to be negotiated, while omitting the non-negotiable demands of lex divina and the Social Reign of Christ the King, thereby confirming the apostasy of the post-1958 hierarchy and the urgent necessity of sedevacantism.
