[gobucks]

This comes from the actual opinion - and it's devastatingly incisive in a way the media reports, and it seems all of them, deliberately downplayed. I strongly recommend reading it all, but especially the first few pages, and page 13.

My question is this: if these "men" really loved that HIV positive kid, why would they refuse the option that allowed them free, unsupervised guardianship?

They wanted to use the kid for political purposes, that's why. And if case workers continue to visit, and thus mess some more with the developing "who am I really" questions, well, the kid will get over it. This whole story is unreal and makes me so sick.

[gobucks]

Iron Eagle, thanks for pointing the way to this in the another thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1067545/posts

[Happy2BMe]

Will post later in thread...BUMPING

[longtermmemmory]

why the duplicate post?

[Revel]

Now if only the USSC understood this concept of law.

[passionfruit]

Didn't Rosie O'Donnell adopt at least one of her kids in Fla?

[King Black Robe]

God bless those judges who actually understand the limits of their power.

[SandRat]

One down 49 to go

[Lancey Howard]

....and we have found nothing in the Constitution that forbids this policy judgment.

Thus, any argument that the Florida legislature was misguided in its decision is one of legislative policy, not constitutional law. The legislature is the proper forum for this debate, and we do not sit as a superlegislature “to award by judicial decree what was not achievable by political consensus.”

Excellent, excellent news!
This is 180 degrees opposite of what Democrats want, and 180 degrees opposite of how scumbag liberal activist (Democrat) courts like the 9th Circus (and recently, with O'Connor's rapid decline, the US Supreme Court) routinely rule. Rulings like this one give me hope that the nation can still be saved.

[davidosborne]

BTTT !!