The theme of solidarity is recognizing the fact that we are all brothers and sisters and that when one of us is being wronged or mistreated, so are we all. In my topic, we are talking about people being discriminated against and not being allowed to have families, but also children being denied the ability to have a loving and caring home. In the Bible, it says, “Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.” God calls for us to defend the fatherless, in this case, we can apply this to orphans and those in the foster care system. We could infer that by defending the fatherless, we find people to protect them. What better way to find protectors of an orphan than to find them a new, loving home? I believe that by denying queer couples the ability to foster or adopt children, we are not defending the fatherless, we are redacting their right to a loving and caring home that could be provided by a queer couple. Now, I am not saying that all queer couples or individuals should have the right to foster or adopt, only if they are deemed suitable by the metrics in which a straight couple would be, but of course, excluding metrics such as gender or sexuality. I believe that God loves all of his children and that metrics such as gender or sexuality do not make one a sinner. In addition to protecting the fatherless, I believe the call to maintain the rights of the oppressed is calling us to maintain the rights of queer people. Queer people deserve the right to have a family of their own. Of course, as I mentioned before, they must be suitable and qualified parents like their straight counterparts, but their sexuality or gender should not be a basis that should disqualify them from becoming parents.