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James Lankford: “Our state in Oklahoma discovered the number of foster…”

Featuring: James Lankford, Republican | U.S. Senate, Oklahoma

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Human dignity and public policy

Published | Video Starts at 24:42

And even though when they're teenagers, they dye their hair a weird color and get a tattoo, they're loved by God and they're to be loved by us. And that's best displayed in the church. Your church can find foster families. Our state in Oklahoma discovered the number of foster children in the state would go to zero if every church had one foster family in it. I don't know what it is in your state. You might want to do the math on that. If just every church had one foster family, we would have zero foster kids available in the community. (24:42–24:52)

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Asserts that Oklahoma could eliminate foster care needs if each church had one foster family.

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