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Utah judge removes child from foster parents because they are lesbians
A judge in Utah has taken a baby girl from her foster parents simply because they are lesbians.
April Hoagland and Beckie Peirce of Carbon County are married with two children, and hoped to adopt a the one-year-old girl they had been fostering for three months.
However, Judge Scott Johansen on Wednesday (11 November) ordered the Department of Child and Family Services to remove the child from their care within seven days.
Johansen cited studies suggesting children are better off in straight households, but Hoagland and Beckie feel the judge imposed his religious beliefs on them.
‘We are shattered,’ Hoagland told KUTV. ‘It hurts me really badly because I haven’t done anything wrong.’
‘He’s never been in our home, never spent time with the child in our home or our other children so he doesn’t know anything about this,’ Peirce addded.
The Human Rights Campaign noted the prevailing professional consensus is that the sexual orientation of parents has nothing to do with their ability to be good parents.
‘Removing a child from a loving home simply because the parents are LGBT is outrageous, shocking, and unjust,’ said the group’s president, Chad Griffin, in a statement.
‘It also flies in the face of overwhelming evidence that children being raised by same-sex parents are just as healthy and well-adjusted as those with different-sex parents. At a time when so many children in foster care need loving homes, it is sickening to think that a child would be taken from caring parents who planned to adopt.’
Watch the KUTV report below:
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Darren Wee
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