Moving home: Church and state converge at Kentucky’s foster care crisis
It was early evening in late August and former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin was talking into a microphone on a stage in the youth sanctuary at Immanuel Baptist Church in Lexington. He had arrived late, and was wearing the same black suit and blue tie he’d worn earlier that day to escort President Donald Trump around Louisville. He was telling church and community members why they should foster and adopt children.
“It isn’t the role of government to raise kids,” Bevin told the crowd.