SOUTH DAKOTA GOVERNOR MUM ON RELIGIOUS ADOPTION PROTECTIONS
Source: Associated Press
Mar 8, 3:36 PM EST
BY HANNAH WEIKEL
ASSOCIATED PRESS
South Dakota's Republican governor isn't saying whether he'll sign a measure aimed at protecting faith-based organizations that refuse to place children with gay couples or other arrangements contrary to their religious beliefs.
Gov. Dennis Daugaard, who hasn't signaled what action he will take on the bill, frustrated the more conservative elements of his party last year by vetoing a bill that would have required students to use bathrooms and locker rooms corresponding with their birth gender. Daugaard, who isn't seeking re-election, has also pledged to veto a pair of measures this year expanding gun rights.
"I know it was relatively controversial," Daugaard said last week about the adoptions bill. He said he'd "listen to both sides" and weigh in, but as of Wednesday - the day after the GOP-controlled Legislature passed it - Daugaard's office hadn't signaled whether he had made up his mind.
If Daugaard signs the bill, South Dakota would join Michigan, North Dakota and Virginia to pass so-called religious exemption bills concerning adoption and foster care, and the first since the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that legalized gay marriage.
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old guy
(3,283 posts)He say god told him to.
luvMIdog
(2,533 posts)like there have never been any male & female couples molesting children * rolls eyes*
EVIL MORONS!!
econron
(152 posts)Perhaps the Summit League to do the right thing and move all of their events out of South Dakota similar to the NCAA and North Carolina, the NBA and Charlotte. They just drew record crowds to Sioux Falls for the recent basketball tournaments and any chance of losing that tournament might make a difference.
Honestly they are among the states I'm boycotting ....