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    LaComtesseMarie Lodi
    11/12/15 11:02am

    Me:

    GIF

    First and foremost, that poor baby. One is definitely old enough to have a grasp of “Mamas aren’t here. Where are they? I miss them.” Secondly those poor women. I can only imagine how awful this must be on them, as mothers and as a couple bemoaning that this bullshit can happen to them LEGALLY.

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      MessO'Espresso is a noodle-bodied slothLaComtesse
      11/12/15 11:13am

      Same. I’m glad DCFS is working for the best interests of the child and not some religious fanatic.

      “On the one hand, I’m not going to expect my caseworkers to violate a court order,” said Brent Platt, director of the Utah’s Division of Child and Family Services (DCFS), “but on the other hand, I’m not going to expect my caseworkers to violate the law.”

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      KendradicalLaComtesse
      11/12/15 11:36am

      Totally off-topic, random question. What do children of same sex parents generally call each parent? Is one Mom and one Mommy, or something to that effect?

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    jeanneeeMarie Lodi
    11/12/15 10:58am

    Fuck you, judge. This should be a career ending mistake for this asshole.

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      MEtheBarbarianjeanneee
      11/12/15 11:02am

      I’d agree, but he slapped a kid and still has his job. How does some one manage that? I'm hoping it's the end anyway.

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      Bowen291jeanneee
      11/12/15 11:24am

      Any one of the rulings listed above should have been career ending mistakes for this guy.

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    KatMarloweMarie Lodi
    11/12/15 11:00am

    Research, hmm? I don’t know if I would call my great-uncle's rambling Facebook posts research.

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      LaComtesseKatMarlowe
      11/12/15 11:14am

      This, on the other hand, is actual research:

      Children with same-sex attracted parents score higher than population samples on a number of parent-reported measures of child health. Perceived stigma is negatively associated with mental health. Through improved awareness of stigma these findings play an important role in health policy, improving child health outcomes.

      In short, Judge, it’s not the parents that’s the problem: it’s you.

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      MsMymlanLaComtesse
      11/12/15 11:23am

      I wonder if that’s because same-sex couples (or any couple for that matter) have to meet very high standards to adopt children. Correlation?

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    EmilylorMarie Lodi
    11/12/15 10:55am

    HOW

    THE

    FUCK

    ARE THESE NOT

    INDIVIDUALLY

    WORTHY

    OF

    IMPEACHMENT

    WHY IS THIS PERSON ALLOWED TO BE A JUDGE

    WHATS THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM SMOKING

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      teenytinycornteethEmilylor
      11/12/15 11:04am

      because when people go to vote and they see three pages of judges and the question is “should this person keep their job” everyone just does a flat yes all the way down because the only person they came to vote for is the President/Governor.

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      Emilylorteenytinycornteeth
      11/12/15 11:17am

      So it’s smoking apathy, ignorance, and laziness.

      Everything is sadness and badness.

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    VinMarie Lodi
    11/12/15 11:16am

    Given how difficult it is for kids in the US to get adopted (compared to the glamour of adopting kids from other countries, or people dropping thousands of dollars on IVF out of some misguided need to have their own biological kids despite their bodies’ protests), I don’t even have the words in my fucking mouth to properly express just how infuriating this is.

    This bullshit right here is the kind of thing I have no trouble imagining would drive a person to mass murder - yet all this couple is doing is suffering and doing things the right way.

    As someone else already said: fuck you, judge.

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      RedBeansAndRiceDidMissHerVin
      11/12/15 11:19am

      Woah, hey, backup. I am all for adoption, but it’s not the right choice for everyone, and deriding people for having the resources to and wanting to try for a biological child has absolutely no place here. It is not the responsibility of the infertile to adopt all the unwanted kids in America.

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      TheVageniusVin
      11/12/15 11:34am

      I would have starred your comment except for the weird judginess about IVF. Let me ask you, do you eat meat? Drive a car? Buy cheap clothes (made in sweatshops)? Buy from a dog breeder? Eat all organic? I could go on and on - my point is just that individual humans are a collection of needs and desires and it seems kind of cruel to judge the desire to have a biological kid instead of jumping through the (as you mentioned, incredibly difficult) hoops of adoption.

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    KendradicalMarie Lodi
    11/12/15 11:34am

    This judge needs to be disbarred - his actions are reprehensible in this case, along with slapping a 16 year old boy in the courtroom and sending the teen boy to juvie for poor grades. However, I don’t think the hair cutting incident is the same level of fucked up that his other actions are. Reading about it, I actually agree that that was an appropriate punishment for the girl in that case. He is still a fucked up person who shouldn’t be allowed to be a judge - especially in charge of juvenile cases - but I don’t really feel that the hair incident should be included in the list of many reasons why he should be fired.

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      KaeteKendradical
      11/12/15 11:56am

      The problem with the hair-cutting incident, as messed up as that case may be, is two-fold.

      1) It’s a classic eye for an eye ruling, which shows an archaic belief in violent retribution/revenge that our modern court system has tried to move beyond.

      2.) Enforced hair removal has a long, long history as a gender-based violence against women. It has long been a favorite punishment for women who have been judged sexually inappropriate. Look at the “traditional” fathers who cut off their daughter’s hair for having a boyfriend, or for historical basis, the women who were violently delocked for accusations of sleeping with Germans after WWII. (Never mind that many of them were probably just resorting to prostitution to survive.)

      Fact of the matter is, crudely and summarily hacking off someone’s hair is a punishment far too associated with sexual/gender based oppression, and does not belong in a court of law.

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      KendradicalKaete
      11/12/15 1:01pm

      I get that all, and I agree. But in this case, I don’t think the hair cutting as punishment is too far out of line. The girl plotted to chop the hair off of a three year old, for fun. So yeah, I can see wanting to show her how that was so fucked up, and make her feel like she made that poor little child feel. Not because we should take an eye for an eye in itself, but to show this girl how hurtful what she did was, and hopefully having some empathy would prevent her from ever doing something like that again.

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    AnglKatMarie Lodi
    11/12/15 11:16am

    I’m an attorney who occasionally does GAL work. I was working on a case where one of the children was placed in a foster home with a lesbian couple. The attorney for one of the biological parents protested against the placement based on the fact that they are lesbians, and the judge shut it down pretty quickly. The attorney looked like a total idiot. I was actually worried about it at first because I live in a not remotely progressive region of the country.

    I don’t know if it makes it more or less disgusting that I’m pretty sure the attorney was making the argument less out of outright bigotry and more that he was reaching for any and every argument to get the kids out of foster care and back with the abusive parents.

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      KendradicalAnglKat
      11/12/15 11:41am

      From what I read, no attorney was involved in arguing to have the child removed from their home. It was the judge who ordered the baby removed from their care, not an attorney. Also, I didn’t read anything about the baby coming from abusive parents - the couple even states that the mother wants the baby with them - but I can’t imagine why anybody would argue to place a child in a home with abusive parents, anyway. This is nothing more or less than the judge being a vile bigot pushing his own agenda onto this poor family.

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      AnglKatKendradical
      11/12/15 12:32pm

      Yes, I agree. I was just sharing an anecdote.

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    iElvis is Now Funded by Peter ThielMarie Lodi
    11/12/15 11:03am

    DCFS wants us to have the child, the Guardian Ad Litem wants us to have the child, the mother wants us to have the child, so the only thing standing in the way is the judge

    There’s nothing like a judge who decides on his own initiative to create a controversy where none exists.

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      darleeeeeene aka deraaiilleeeeeeneiElvis is Now Funded by Peter Thiel
      11/12/15 11:09am

      hey, he’s famous now! He’s basically just as qualified as any of the GOP candidates to become president.

      VOTE IN YOUR LOCAL ELECTIONS!!!!!

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      LaComtesseiElvis is Now Funded by Peter Thiel
      11/12/15 11:14am

      He’s the Starbucks Red Cup of judges.

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    Cylontater: Luke Skywalker's Baby MamaMarie Lodi
    11/12/15 10:54am

    This is so sad. Anyone that believes a child will suffer with same sex parents is a bigot, plain and simple. This judge should be ashamed and I hope this ruling is overturned.

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      QuanYinMarie Lodi
      11/12/15 11:11am

      When I went to sleep last night, I was certain that it was 2015. But it seems that I’ve woken up this morning in, like, 1995?

      It’s the only plausible explanation I can come up with for why this is a thing that happened.

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        Boehners-Own-Private-OhioQuanYin
        11/12/15 11:13am

        More like 1960 if you factor in the “Just ignore the schoolyard bullies...who want to blow your brains out” from that one instructor.

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        whassaQuanYin
        11/12/15 11:26am

        I hate to break it to you but I’m not even sure we’ve made it out of black and white television the way assholes are destroying things daily.

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