Judge Orders Child Removed From Lesbian Couple

[davidinalameda]

http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/10/101405indAdopt.htm

Becki Hamilton and Kim Brennan for several years have served as foster parents to a number of Indiana children. In 2004 the lesbian couple was asked by the state to provide a home for an abandoned infant and to consider adopting her. They took the baby home when she was two days old and have provided care for her since then, including naming the child Morgan.

But when the judge supervising the child's foster care placement realized that the child's prospective adoptive parents were lesbians, the court she ordered the State child welfare agency to find her a home with a heterosexual married couple instead.

The State did not locate such a family for many months and meanwhile the two mothers, who are licensed pre-adoptive foster parents, applied for and were granted an adoption by the Marion Superior Court. The Morgan Juvenile Court then ruled that the adoption was invalid.

[nickinSTL]

1. talk about f*ing activist judges

:mad:

[politicaholic]

2. This makes me want to puke...

There are too few caring people out there for officials to take children out of a troubled home and be picky about which approved foster home in which they are placed.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. Yeah, tear the child away from the only parents she's known

that's really looking after the child's welfare--NOT

[Missy M]

4. How could the Morgan Juvenile Court rule the adoption was invalid..

just like that, when the couple was granted an adoption by a Superior Court? The juvenile court knows the lesbian couple is not allowed to marry and then uses that against them. Talk about a Catch 22.

[yellowcanine]

5. Are single persons not allowed to adopt children in Indiana? If they are,

what is the problem?

[Catfight]

6. Remind me what century I'm in again? 13th? 14th? This is Bush's doing. nt

[TallahasseeGrannie]

7. What is WITH Indiana, anyway?

Flat boring place.

[bluedawg12]

8. Now you know why I am so pissed off

and why any of the lies against gays are so dangerous.

it seems cumbersome and tedious to react to radicalrightwing propaganda, but while the Judges reasons for a bias against a lesbian house hold is not stated, I can tell you that what I have been on the war path about- dissemintation of vile misinformation about gays and gay lifestyle is damaging and radicalrightwingers and theofascists believe the lies and then spout them and pass it on as if it were gospel.

The right has been hammering gays since the 1980's and I have not seen a serious response on a community level or in the media and with out one, people will simply believe the lies and things like this will happend more and more.

Somebody ought to send this to Andrew Sullivan so that he gets his priorities straight...er...gay!