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Utah judge who ordered child removed from lesbian foster parents takes self off case
Judge Scott Johansen is now off the case.
The Utah judge who last week ordered the Department of Child and Family Services to remove a child from a home because the foster moms are lesbians has agreed to remove himself from the case.
Johansen had cited studies suggesting children are better off in straight households when he ruled against April Hoagland and Beckie Peirce. The Carbon County couple are married with two children and hoped to adopt the nine-month-old girl who they had been fostering for three months.
The couple had requested that Johansen be disqualified from their case and he reacted by disqualifying himself.
His decision last week had caused outrage and among those critical of it were Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton and Utah Governor Gary Herbert.
Following the outcry, Johansen reversed his order until at least the next hearing but he remained on the case.
Meanwhile, a Change.org petition has been launched seeking to have the judge removed from the bench.
H/T: Towleroad
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