The Virginia State Board of Social Services voted Wednesday to reject new adoption rules that would have allowed same-sex couples to adopt in the state for the first time.
The proposed regulations would have prohibited adoption agencies from discriminating against prospective parents because they’re gay.
In a 7-2 vote Wednesday afternoon, the board opted against the new rules, first proposed by former governor Tim Kaine. In Virginia, only married couples and single men and women, regardless of sexual orientation, can adopt. The proposed changes would require private and faith-based groups, such as Catholic Charities and Jewish Family Services, to allow gay parents to adopt or foster children.
Some members of the board, including Democratic appointees who make up the 5-4 majority, had told The Washington Post on Tuesday they would be guided by advice from Republican Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II.
In a memo sent to the agency last week, Cuccinelli’s office said that the proposed changes did not comply with “applicable state law and public policy.”
In December 2009, then Attorney General Bill Mims, a former Republican legislator and now a state Supreme Court justice, advised that the state board had the authority to repeal the existing regulations.
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I’m embarrassed to live in this bible-thumping state.
I’m embarrassed to live in this bible-thumping state.
Jae, why would you like this?!
Yeah this popped up on my feed via our local news station. Pretty pissed right now.
BIG JERKS. SPIT ON THEM…………
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Just wish there is a a box to click dislike…please don’t click like please….its ridiculous
Just wish there is a a box to click dislike…please don’t click like please….its ridiculous
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deff dislike. the one person who liked it is not a nice person! lol
This is terrible! Who’s to say a certain gender is better at raising a child then another? Maybe oneday this country will learn..
This is terrible! Who’s to say a certain gender is better at raising a child then another? Maybe oneday this country will learn..
screw them -.-
tsk.. some ppl are just slow
Arizona made it harder for single people to adopt. Gov. Brewer was raised by her Widowed Mother.
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They are only hurting poor, unwanted innocent children. sad. :(
WTH is wrong with those people? I’ll be getting my LMSW and can hardly wait to help gay couples adopt. I cannot believe that Social Workers could be so ignorant.
WTH is wrong with those people? I’ll be getting my LMSW and can hardly wait to help gay couples adopt. I cannot believe that Social Workers could be so ignorant.
This makes me so sad to say I am from Virginia
This makes me so sad to say I am from Virginia
Who are these bigots to decide the future of these kids who are in desperate need of a loving home?
i’m from virginia born and raised and don’t believe this is right at all it shouldn’t matter what the sexual prefrence is of the people wanting to adopt it should depend on if the child can be taken care of. virginia has messed up ways when it comes to adoption of children anyways. they will let my psychotic mother take and adopt my son but wouldn’t let me sign him over to my girlfriend that could have raised him up perfectly fine and he would know me but no now my child is 8 and doesn’t even know he is adopted nor that i exist… that’s virginia for ya…
i’m from virginia born and raised and don’t believe this is right at all it shouldn’t matter what the sexual prefrence is of the people wanting to adopt it should depend on if the child can be taken care of. virginia has messed up ways when it comes to adoption of children anyways. they will let my psychotic mother take and adopt my son but wouldn’t let me sign him over to my girlfriend that could have raised him up perfectly fine and he would know me but no now my child is 8 and doesn’t even know he is adopted nor that i exist… that’s virginia for ya…