What constitution?
Inmates are running the Asylum
And how's that?
Exactly, The State Constitution doesn’t allow it either. This is a legislative matter that has nothing to do with the Constitution.
Poor kids, they have no say.
“The state constitution in Tennessee does not prohibit gay couples from adopting children, the state attorney general said in an opinion released Thursday”
I guess now lawyers, not judges are making Constitutional decisions. We have a lot of those.
Prohibiting homosexuals from adopting children HAS been found to be constitutionally permissible. The 11 Federal DCA did the last opinion on a case out of FL. (the homosexuals made repeated runs on that FL law) The USSC refused cert.
It seems the Tennessee legislature has some writing to do.
I suspect this woman judge has a homosexual adoption case in front of her and can’t comment because it is a minor.
The REAL issue is whether it is a violation of the law to give a child to two fathers/mothers. All adotions should be to one mother and one father.
The two homosexuals, related by sexual recreation, should NOT be adopting a child.
If anything only ONE should be allowed to be the adoptive mother/father.
“The lifestyle of the proposed adoptive parent is a factor the trial court should consider in determining whether a proposed adoption is in the best interest of a child.”But we wouldn't even think of saying anything bad about the gay lifestyle, would we? So go ahead and look forward to even more two-year-olds in leather harnesses attending gay sex orgies…
Ah yes, so here we have the catch. If we amend Constitutions, we are cluttering, adding bias, imposing views, etc. If we don’t, they win by default.
Ok, the rules are (1) no boys for the male queers, and (2) no girls for the lezzbos.
Watch how quickly they lose interest.
I don’t see any problem with this AG’s answer. Either the TN Constitution does prohibit such, or it doesn’t. If it does, quote the applicable portion. If it doesn’t, then it’s up to the state legislature to address the issue. The AG can only work with the laws he has.
Far be it from me to defend gay couples ... but I am not adamantly against gay couples being eligible adoption.
I believe homosexuality is wrong. But, to the extent that a gay couple can be verified as stable and otherwise qualified, I see no reason that a child should be left in an orphanage when he would certainly be better off with a family.
In a perfect world, all children would be adopted into stable, loving, married, Christian, heterosexual families ... that would certainly be the best for the child, and those families should be given preference.
But, it is preferable for a child to have a stable gay couple family than no family at all.
My aversion to homosexuality notwithstanding ... when taking the interests of the child as the only priority, I cannot be entirely against gay adoptions.
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