In this day and age, why do we let this hate exist?

There is little to comment on this, since the story essentially speaks for itself. The West VA court ruled on an appeal case after a fucking whack job judge ruled that a child could not stay with a lesbian couple that adopted her. 

In a 4-1 vote Wednesday, the court agreed to hear the appeal of Kathryn Kutil and Cheryl Hess to a November ruling by Fayette County Circuit Judge Paul Blake ... Blake issued his ruling after Kutil and Hess sought to adopt a 2-year-old girl who had been in their foster care since she was born in December 2007.

The Department of Health and Human Resources placed the girl, who was born to a drug-addicted mother and was suffering from withdrawal, with the Oak Hill couple on Christmas Eve that year.
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After Blake terminated the mother's parental rights last month and the father could not be located, the DHHR moved to permanently place the girl and allow Kutil and Hess adopt her.

Fayetteville lawyer Thomas Fast filed a motion Jan. 24 to remove the child because it had been placed in a "homosexual household," according to documents filed with the Supreme Court. In a Nov. 12 order, the judge ruled the DHHR had failed to seek a "traditional most family-like setting with a mother and father" after placement with the birth family failed ... Blake ordered the child removed, and the DHHR placed her in a second foster home. The Supreme Court ordered her returned to Kutil and Hess.

You get three guesses as to who piped in, and your last two don't count.

A family rights group wants to stop a same-sex couple from adopting a child they have kept in foster care since birth ... The Family Policy Council of West Virginia filed an amicus curiae Jan. 20 that argues abused and neglected children should be placed "on a par with natural children."

So, let me get this straight. They would rather put this child back with a drug addicted mother, just as long as that mother didn't sleep with other women? I can't tell you how much of a rage this has put me into. The next conservative that talks about "activist judges" is getting a baseball bat to their car. The fight over gay marriage is a distraction, to be honest. Its the ultimate non issue. It affects very few people either way. Gay marriage, though, isn't the real issue. Its a smoke screen for a whole scale rollback of gay rights. You'll find plenty of good, honest progressives who don't support gay marriage. I personally am indifferent. I support it, but feel there are many more pressing issues that are more worth fighting for. However, I could not, as hard as I try, find a liberal anywhere that would rather a baby be in a crack den than with two loving parents.

The right seems to equate gay parents with... well... something other than what they are, which is a normal family. The most important thing to a child is love and support. Everything else is bullshit. For years the right have set up straw men fallacies to destroy anything they don't feel is traditional. I hate to break it to you, but the "traditional family" you so idolize and worship is a fairly modern construction. Only in the last two centuries has marriage become anything but a property exchange between two families and children anything but a labor commodity.

It's time to take the ideological blinders off, right wing hate mongers. You can no longer turn a blind eye to how the "traditional" family can be detrimental to a child, especially when there are "non-traditional" families who are aching for, and who can take care of any child—especially those children most in need of love and protection. Not only is it irresponsible to return that child to its biological parents, it is reprehensible and frankly, frighteningly out of touch with the times.

(Story via Right Wing Watch)