Utah Judge's Reverses Order to Take Baby From Lesbian Couple

ABC News ^ | 11/13/2015 | Brady McCombs/AP

[GIdget2004]

A Utah judge reversed his decision to take a baby away from her lesbian foster parents and place her with a heterosexual couple after the ruling led to widespread backlash.

Judge Scott Johansen signed an order, which was released Friday, that will allow the 9-month-old baby to stay with April Hoagland and Beckie Peirce, a married couple who live in the city of Price.

It comes after Johansen said in court Tuesday that the baby would be removed from the couple's home. Utah officials and the couple filed court challenges demanding the judge rescind the order.

In his first decision, Johansen cited research that shows children do better when raised by heterosexual families. However, the American Psychological Association has said there's no scientific basis that gay couples are unfit parents based on sexual orientation.

Messages left with Jim Hunnicutt, a lawyer for the couple, and the Utah Division of Child and Family Services seeking comments on the judge's revised order were not immediately returned Friday.

Hoagland and Peirce are among a group of same-sex married couples who were allowed to become foster parents in Utah after last summer's U.S. Supreme Court ruling that made gay marriage legal across the country. State officials don't keep an exact count but estimate there are a dozen or more foster parents who are married same-sex couples.

[ForYourChildren]

“Off Topic, but has anyone noticed all the TV Commercials with Gay Couples?”

Yes, this week my wife and I have noticed this.

The satanic sodomite cult is a mental disorder. God says this in Romans.

Sodomy is a mental disorder.

Promoting this mental disorder as normal by the society is also part of the extended mental disorder, as described in Romans.

This mental disorder and the acceptance and promotion by society is also God’s judgment on a society for turning away from Him (also in Romans 1), “therefore” God gives over the society the satanic sodomite cult mental disease.

But it completely surprises me that innocent young children in the society is handed to satanic sodomite cult members. We have truly become a sick society.

[ForYourChildren]

Truly child abuse.

The recent issue where the person got fired from the daycare because she couldn’t support the parents decision of one of the children being a tranny.

It turns out that the child was an adoptee and the parents were two male satanic sodomite cult members, using their adopted child and forcing the child to be a tranny. Sick!!

[Scirparius]

Don't fall for this outrage-bait.

There is a complete and utter absence of any relevant information or facts about this case. The story is basically ABC's one note synopsis of what happened without any context, any background or and facts.

This is just like saying "White cop murders unarmed black teen" in the Michael Brown case. It narrows the entire story down to one liberal newsbyte to advance the liberal agenda.

The Judge wasn't just walking down the street, saw a couple of lesbians with a kid, and then ordered the cops to come take the kid away. There was a reason why the case was in court in the first place... but nothing about that appears in the article. The article wants you to believe the Judge's determination was based on the fact that the parents were lesbians, but there are absolutely no facts in the article to support that, other than one statement attributed to the just about homosexual parents -- with no context as to what the Judge was actually talking about.

Again, I say: don't fall for this.

[Coronal]

Good luck in convincing anyone here of that.

[DoodleDawg]

Good luck in convincing anyone here of that.

I know. But after Obamacare and gay marriage I'm pretty tired of judges making laws from the bench. Regardless of how good their intentions are.