After outcry, judge reverses order taking baby from lesbians

AP ^ | 11/14/15 | MICHELLE L. PRICE and BRADY McCOMBS

[markomalley]

April Hoagland and Beckie Peirce, a Utah couple who married last year, went to a routine hearing Tuesday expecting to hear an update on how long it would be before they could adopt the baby girl they'd been raising as foster parents for three months.

Instead, they were shocked and devastated when a judge in the central Utah city of Price ordered the child be removed from their home within a week and placed with a heterosexual couple, citing a belief that children are worse off when raised by gay couples.

There were audible gasps in the courtroom, Hoagland said, and outrage echoed around the country this week as national LGBT groups, Utah's Republican governor and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton criticized the judge's ruling.

[reaganaut]

Coward

[knarf]

" ... alleging that Johansen discriminated against the couple based on sexual orientation."

You damned skippy and about damned time, too !

First official declaration I've seen that says, "You guys are whacked, by MY standards ... and I will not allow you to continue"

[Lumper20]

F the queers and Lesbians. They need to think what kid wants to grow up around them and their evil ways.

[Theodore R.]

They always cave; no one will stand up, for they know how the American people support these injustices.

[cdcdawg]

“... citing a belief that children are worse off when raised by gay couples.”

You don’t say!

[ThePatriotsFlag]

What the hell has “outcry” got to do with administration of law? With this scenario, we don’t need a legal system, just a public opinion poll. This isn’t about gays or straughts...something greater is more fundamentally wrong here.

[Caipirabob]

One more child sacrificed to Baal...

[kearnyirish2]

Can these kids sue when they grow up?

This is absolutely evil (and will prevent many from putting children up for adoption).

[xzins]

justice by public relations

[Vinnie]

Uhhhh, I thought the court’s primary concern was the welfare of the child?
Guess that doesn’t hold if the prospective parents are part of the LBGQWERTY class.

[bgill]

I’m assuming the judge will be paying for the kid’s therapy in a few years.

[cherry]

why place babies with people that are not normally functioning?....why chance it?...

[HLPhat]

>>One more child sacrificed to Baal...

Not exactly a shock in the context of the Kolobian State-establishment.

Where...

https://www.google.com/#q=salt%20lake%20city%20homosexual%20population

[SovereignVA]

That was quick.

[highball]

"You guys are whacked, by MY standards ... and I will not allow you to continue"

Those are the words of an activist judge. We don't want a judge to apply *his* standards, we want him to apply the law. The article isn't exactly clear, but according to the governor it appears that Utah law doesn't give the judge that type of discretion.

If that's true, the answer is not for a judge to disregard the law. That's a leftist trick. The answer is for the legislators to fix the law to serve what's right.

It's tempting to adopt leftist tactics, but we should be better than that. And we are. We're not afraid of actual work, and we don't need activist judges to save us from it.

[NetAddicted]

That’s pretty much what’s going on today: law by opinion poll.

[NetAddicted]

Why do so many Satanic sodomites live there?

[HLPhat]

>>Why do so many Satanic sodomites live there?

An affinity with a state-establishment like the one that’s perched there shouldn’t be shocking.

Their ilk have always coveted the bride of Christ, which is His Church.

[reaganaut]

Political pressure