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Utah’s governor critical of judge who removed child from lesbian foster parents
Utah Governor Gary Herbert is critical of a judge who this week took a baby girl from her foster parents simply because they are lesbians.
‘I’m a little puzzled by the action down there personally,’ Herbert told reporters on Thursday (12 November).
‘I expect the court and the judge to follow the law. He may not like the law, but he should follow the law. We don’t want to have activism on the bench in any way, shape or form. Laws, sometimes people don’t like, but the judge should not interject his own personal beliefs and feelings and supersede the law.’
Judge Scott Johansen ordered the Department of Child and Family Services to remove the child from the home of Carbon County couple April Hoagland and Beckie Peirce within seven days..
The couple are married with two children and hoped to adopt the one-year-old girl who they had been fostering for three months.
The judge cited studies suggesting children are better off in straight households.
The Human Rights Campaign has noted the prevailing professional consensus is that the sexual orientation of parents has nothing to do with their ability to be good parents.
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