A couple of weeks ago I posted an entry about how much I was hoping that Kentucky's Senate Bill 68 would NOT make it out of committee. The bill, if you don't recall or didn't read the original post, would make it illegal for non-married sexual partners who are living together to adopt or marry. The bill was supposedly created to protect the welfare of children, but it was pretty much common knowledge that it was really designed to prevent homosexual couples from adopting. I had all kinds of problems with this bill, which I discussed in the previous post.I had a bit of a scare earlier this week when the bill DID get a vote in its committee and was sent to the floor. Worse, the committee added an amendment to INCLUDE children who had already been placed in a foster home. This would mean that those children would be removed from a foster home for no other reason than that the two adults fostering them might not be married.
Fortunately, I found out late yesterday that the bill is now officially dead. The Senate leadership did not put a vote on the bill on the final calendar, meaning that it will not be voted on. It's a victory for common sense.
Of course, there's always next year.
Read more here.
2 comments:
Oh thanks for the post! I got an email from several of my friends about the bill (mainly how it went to the floor after being voted on in a secret session - making sure the public was unaware of the vote). Collectively, we left about a dozen messages for Tom Buford to say that in addition to a fundamental disagreement with the bill, we were seriously disappointed in public servants who would eliminate the public in the decision-making process. Unfortunately, we were on our way to Hilton Head while this was all going on and I lost track of the bill. But I will literally sleep better tonight.
I was relieved as well. Kentucky has enough of a reputation as a backwater state. We don't need to do anything else to add to that.
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