Posted on 01/03/2005 5:33:26 AM PST by Born Conservative
Gay man claims Chester Muroski could have had ulterior reasons for executing a delay in a boy's adoption.
HAZLETON - Don Murray was thrilled the day his adoption of an 11-year-old boy was approved, but he was far less happy with a Luzerne County judge he claims caused an unnecessary delay. Murray, who is gay, said he believes his sexuality prompted orphans court judge Chester Muroski to initially refuse to approve the adoption at an Oct. 18 hearing. Muroski halted the proceeding and appointed attorney John Bellino to review the case, resulting in a more than two-month delay.
Muroski, through an employee, said he could not comment on the case because adoption proceedings are confidential. But Bellino said he was "shocked" when he learned Murray was questioning Muroski's objectivity. He said the judge had other, legitimate reasons for asking him to look into the case to ensure the adoption was in the child's best interest.
Murray, of Grant Street, had taken the boy in through a foster care referral made by Philadelphia's child welfare agency, which had custody. The child was placed with Murray and his partner, Donnie Strawser, about three years ago.
Murray said he and Strawser, 42, had undergone all required background checks and home examinations. All agencies involved with the child had signed off on the adoption, he said, and so he thought the Oct. 18 hearing was a mere formality.
But Murray said he ran into a problem when Muroski, seeing Murray was single, asked him if he resided with anyone.
"When I said 'his name is Donnie,' he (Muroski) rolled his eyes and called my lawyer to the bench and said 'I don't like surprises,' Murray said. "It wasn't like we hid this. From the very beginning, we were very open."
Bellino said he understands Murray was upset, but finds it hard to believe Muroski's actions were based on a bias against homosexuals. He noted Muroski has previously approved at least a dozen other gay adoptions over the past few years.
In Murray's case, Bellino said Muroski was concerned that the 11-year-old boy's biological brother, who was also placed with Murray, had been transferred to another foster care home.
Bellino said the judge wanted him to investigate the circumstances of that transfer before approving the adoption. Bellino said once he determined there was nothing amiss, he recommended the adoption be approved and the judge agreed.
Murray confirmed the boy's brother was transferred because he had difficulty accepting the rules of the home. But he questions if that was Muroski's motivation, noting the issue of the transfer did not come up until later in the proceeding.
Murray said he believes Muroski approved the adoption only after Philadelphia officials called and said they would take the case to court there.
Whatever the true reason, Murray said he's glad the ordeal is over and is now concentrating on adopting a second child, 7-year-old boy, who is also in his care.
"We'll definitely be going through Philadelphia for that," he said.
Sorry, no pun intended. This is just so outrageous. The adoptions, the schools, etc. it's just out of control and seems to be snowballing.
It can be done. The problem is we took too long by about 40 years to recognize that the left uses linguistic turns to redefine Western Civilization. We have to start somewhere and taking language back is the first step.
The second is to take the educational system back at the local level. We put more emphasis on the national elections than we do the local school board and city council elections. From the local level one can influence and put into place those ideas that will reclaim the institutions. We have been blind-sided by the slow attrition which is coming to fruition now.
It isn't too late. If the net did not exist, I would say all is lost. The net does exist and MSM does not have the influence it did. While MSM had the only voice, no one else was heard. That has changed.
We can use Gramsci's model with variations to circumvent any lefist offense to our own ends.
I agree, your pun just made me snicker!
"No couple, straight or gay, should ever let kids know what happens behind closed doors. What happens is between us."
Really? No more hetero "birds and bees" conversations from hetero parents?
The filthy things homos do behind their (sometimes) closed doors are pornographic, pure and simple. Thankfully, they cannot reproduce.
Yeah, I'll just bet. Is there a minimum age for fisting?
I wish there were something legal that we could do to stop this kind of thing. I find it unbelievable that the courts allow it to happen. However, had this judge found against the "couple," it's a safe bet that the ACLU would've jumped in with both feet.
I don't want to read any tripe about how these particular people are different from the rest of the "gay community." They're not. This is just another step down the road to chaos, for which we can thank liberals and secularists bent on the redefinition of our society.
Hopefully more often--far more often--and with caustic chemicals.
Why not just beat the child to death with a blunt object after mentally abusing and torturing him for years...
NO DIFFERENCE WHAT-SO-EVER. Except maybe this alternative is a kinder and gentler alternative to some activist fagot/lesbian judge forcing the child to spend his life living in urine and feces.
As experience has shown, the absence of complementarity sexuality in homosexual couples creates obstacles in the normal development of children who would be placed in the care of such disordered persons. Children would be deprived of the experience of either fatherhood or motherhood.
Allowing children to be adopted by persons living as homosexual couples would actually mean doing violence to these children, in the sense that their condition of dependency would be used to place them in an environment that is not conducive to their full human development.
The homosexual environment is gravely immoral and in open contradiction to the principle, recognized, in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, that the best interests of the child, as the weaker and more vulnerable party, are to be the paramount consideration in every case.
Yet they do, in a different way: There's no way to know whether this boy would've been gay or straight, but the odds were against it. However, what does anyone suppose his "lifestyle" is going to be once he becomes an adult, after 7 or 8 years of indoctrination?
Can you imagine the problems he'll face in school, especially after this publicity?
The homosexuals can say anything they like but facts are facts.
Gay men, continually in search of the father figure they never had, becoming fathers themselves - of boys - is the stupidest idea ever.
As a retired foster parent of 27 years for Los Angeles County, a adoptive parent of 5 children, and a Christian , this article makes me sick to my stomach!!!!!!!!! My biggest fear was that some of my children would be placed in homosexual homes.
Denominatons arrange similar adoptions through their social agencies and brag about it. The ELCA works with the Missouri Synod and the Wisconsin Synod. The ELCA's Lutheran Social Services (largely funded with your tax dollars) has bragged about homosexual "parents" adopting through them for decades.
ELCA also pays for abortions for its its clergy and their children, no questions asked.
Thankfully, they cannot reproduce.
So they have got to recruit.
Homosexual adoptions should be limited to children of the opposite sex, if we can't ban them outright.
"wholesale destruction of societal mores", that's it in a nutshell. The goal of the liberal elite is to destroy our culture from the inside out by using the courts and the msm.
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