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MikeWaters · 08-19-2008, 09:27 PM

http://www.advocate.com/exclusive_detail_ektid49987.asp

I thought this was interesting. Woman relapses on drugs. Has a son. Tells state to give her uncle custody of her son. State refuses, because her uncle is gay.

And we are to believe that the son being put in the foster care system is superior to him living with his gay uncle.

Yikes.

BYU71 · 08-19-2008, 09:45 PM

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Originally Posted by MikeWaters

http://www.advocate.com/exclusive_detail_ektid49987.asp

I thought this was interesting. Woman relapses on drugs. Has a son. Tells state to give her uncle custody of her son. State refuses, because her uncle is gay.

And we are to believe that the son being put in the foster care system is superior to him living with his gay uncle.

Yikes.

When it is the only state, let me know.

T Blue · 08-19-2008, 10:16 PM

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Originally Posted by MikeWaters

http://www.advocate.com/exclusive_detail_ektid49987.asp

I thought this was interesting. Woman relapses on drugs. Has a son. Tells state to give her uncle custody of her son. State refuses, because her uncle is gay.

And we are to believe that the son being put in the foster care system is superior to him living with his gay uncle.

Yikes.

Are the druggies parents gone, or not interested in taking care of the boy?

Looks like allot of unanswered questions here, maybe the parents don't have a great relationship with the daughter because she is a druggie and they wish her to clean up and she is getting back at them in this way?

You might want to get the whole story before going off halfcocked after reading a gay rights rag, concering how horribly the gay uncle has been treated?

RedHeadGal · 08-20-2008, 02:50 PM

These stories do always bother me. I didn't read the article. What are the other states? Is Florida one?

There are over half a million children in foster care. To eliminate loving, gay households is absurd.

UtahDan · 08-20-2008, 02:54 PM

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Originally Posted by RedHeadGal

These stories do always bother me. I didn't read the article. What are the other states? Is Florida one?

There are over half a million children in foster care. To eliminate loving, gay households is absurd.

I agree. Upholding a nuclear family with a mother and a father as being the ideal is in no way incompatible with recognizing that that situation is not always available, particularly to foster children. Any person or couple who would taken in and love a child who would otherwise be in, or in what amounts to, an orphanage is rescuing that child. Period.

Speaking of which, I saw "The Orphanage" over the weekend, which is a Guillermo del Toro flick (Pan's Labyrinth, Hell Boy) and it was excellent.

MikeWaters · 08-20-2008, 03:19 PM

My brother has a gay friend in Utah that adopted a child.

The only reason he was allowed to adopt the child was 1) he was single, and 2) he didn't have a boyfriend/partner living with him.

So interestingly in Utah, if you are gay and single, you can adopt. But if you are gay and have a live-in partner, you cannot.

08-19-2008, 09:27 PM	#1
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	Utah one of three states to ban gay foster parents http://www.advocate.com/exclusive_detail_ektid49987.asp I thought this was interesting. Woman relapses on drugs. Has a son. Tells state to give her uncle custody of her son. State refuses, because her uncle is gay. And we are to believe that the son being put in the foster care system is superior to him living with his gay uncle. Yikes.

08-20-2008, 02:50 PM	#4
RedHeadGal Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: DC Posts: 995	These stories do always bother me. I didn't read the article. What are the other states? Is Florida one? There are over half a million children in foster care. To eliminate loving, gay households is absurd.

08-20-2008, 03:19 PM	#6
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	My brother has a gay friend in Utah that adopted a child. The only reason he was allowed to adopt the child was 1) he was single, and 2) he didn't have a boyfriend/partner living with him. So interestingly in Utah, if you are gay and single, you can adopt. But if you are gay and have a live-in partner, you cannot.