Order to take baby from lesbian foster parents under review
Source: AP
By BRADY McCOMBS
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Utah state officials are looking into a judge's order to have a baby taken from lesbian foster parents and placed with a heterosexual couple for the child's well-being.
Utah Division of Child and Family Services spokeswoman Ashley Sumner says Judge Scott Johansen's order Tuesday in the city of Price raised concerns at the agency.
Its attorneys plan to review the decision and determine what options are available for the state to possibly challenge the order.
Attempts to reach April Hoagland and Beckie Peirce on Wednesday were unsuccessful. The couple told KUTV (http://bit.ly/1Sjph1o ) that Judge Johansen cited research that children do better when they are raised by heterosexual couples.
Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/8f9e79e7920645cb894c144a944b3b6c/order-take-baby-lesbian-foster-parents-under-review
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)LuckyLib
(6,819 posts)Mike__M
(1,052 posts)A baby is not primarily an ideological football.
babylonsister
(171,066 posts)jwirr
(39,215 posts)are often subject to. My niece is the baby sitter for a child in a gay family and she is always telling us what good parents they are.
This is another hurtle in the fight. Hopefully the state will reverse the decision as soon as possible.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)call mental health professionals, and the police, for what seems to be a delusional judge?
It ought to be arrested for posing an imminent danger to others.
Isn't there settled case law that the robed crusader is flouting?
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)It's just not safe.
herding cats
(19,564 posts)Real studies prove this time and time again. Not some bogus studies like the ones this judge is too ashamed to even cite.
My heart is with this poor family. I hope the real better interest of the child prevails in this case quickly. I also hope, probably without a chance of seeing it become reality, this judge is removed from the bench for this act of hateful bigotry.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)niyad
(113,323 posts)of lgbt couples:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141257138
niyad
(113,323 posts)reviewed by sane professionals.
Judi Lynn
(160,542 posts)Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Sh*thead