{"id":844,"date":"2005-02-04T13:12:22","date_gmt":"2005-02-04T18:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2005\/02\/04\/gay_compromise\/"},"modified":"2005-02-04T13:12:22","modified_gmt":"2005-02-04T18:12:22","slug":"gay_compromise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2005\/02\/04\/gay_compromise\/","title":{"rendered":"Gay Compromise"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dick Black\u2019s bill<\/a> designed to prevent gays from adopting has been reported to the House floor after a compromise was reached. [Disclosure<\/a>] It seems the deal is that judges can ask about a couple\u2019s homosexuality (whether it be a man and a woman, married or unmarried, as well as same-sex couples). Their reply presumably can be factor in the judge\u2019s decision. <\/p>\n

Deleted from Black\u2019s original bill was: “F. No person under this statute may adopt if that person is a homosexual.” Included instead was: “C. The investigation requested by the circuit court shall include, in addition to other inquiries that the circuit court may require the child-placing agency or local director to make, inquiries as to\u2026v) whether the petitioner is known to engage in current voluntary homosexual activity or is unmarried and cohabiting with another adult to whom he is not related by blood or marriage.”<\/p>\n

The yes vote included some Democrats, including caucus leader Brian Moran.<\/p>\n

YEAS–Hamilton, Purkey, Orrock, McDonnell, Nixon, O’Bannon, Welch, Marrs, Hogan, Bell, Athey, Nutter, Frederick, Janis, Spruill, Moran, Keister, Howell, A.T.–18. <\/p>\n

NAYS–Baskerville, Sickles, Ebbin, BaCote–4. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Maybe the judges should ask what the couple\u2019s favorite color is, as I\u2019m sure that impacts how good they could be as adoptive parents. Or maybe the gay couple could reply, \u201cNo, we\u2019re not currently engaged in voluntary homosexual activity, we\u2019re answering these questions, and yes we are married — in Massachusetts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Virginia Progressive has been following this issue<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dick Black\u2019s bill designed to prevent gays from adopting has been reported to the House floor after a compromise was reached. [Disclosure] It seems the deal is that judges can ask about a couple\u2019s homosexuality (whether it be a man and a woman, married or unmarried, as well as same-sex couples). Their reply presumably can… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}