F'losrix
Joined: 17 Nov 2004
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Location: Michigan, Washtenaw County
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| Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2005 4:00 pm Post subject: Judicial Activism in Indiana |
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Excerpts from this article:
Becki Hamilton and Kim Brennan for several years have served as foster parents to a number of Indiana children. In 2004 the lesbian couple was asked by the state to provide a home for an abandoned infant and to consider adopting her. They took the baby home when she was two days old and have provided care for her since then, including naming the child Morgan.
But when the judge supervising the child's foster care placement realized that the child's prospective adoptive parents were lesbians, the court ordered the State child welfare agency to find her a home with a heterosexual married couple instead.
The State did not locate such a family for many months and meanwhile the two mothers, who are licensed pre-adoptive foster parents, applied for and were granted an adoption by the Marion Superior Court. The Morgan Juvenile Court then ruled that the adoption was invalid.
Indiana has no laws banning gays and lesbians from adopting.
I repeat - Indiana has on laws banning gay couples from adopting, yet some judge apparently decided that her personally held socially conservative views trumped the actual law.
If that doesn't qualify as judicial activism, then I don't know what would. |
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