DSS POLICY DRAWS FIRE: More on North Carolina adoption case

[Eve: Can't tell what this newspaper is, except that it seems to oppose same-sex couples' adopting. It offers more details and quotes than the article cited below, so here you go.]

...The controversy that started brewing nearly two years ago came to a head last week when the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners, after being informed of the allegations, sent a letter to Raleigh asking for clarification on state laws and/or policies regarding adoptions by homosexual or unmarried couples.

Commissioner Bill James wants a local policy that would prohibit gay adoptions; and if commissioners don’t have the authority to set that level of local policy, he wants legislative changes made that would.

If it reaches that stage, the legal and moral battle that could ensue has the potential to be epic. That's what happened in Florida two years ago, when a federal judge upheld a Florida law that prohibits gay adoptions. That ruling has been appealed by the American Civil Liberties Union. Two other states--Mississippi and Utah--have laws that prohibit gay adoptions.

North Carolina law neither expressly prohibits nor permits gay adoptions, which is one of the factors that led to the Mecklenburg DSS and board of commissioners becoming embroiled, again, in a potential storm of heightened controversy.

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