Judge refuses gay adoption cases: It’s never in ‘the best interest of the child’
A Kentucky family court judge won’t hear adoption applications by “practicing homosexuals ” because he believes such adoptions are never in the child’s best interest. Judge W. Mitchell Nance released an order April 27 stating he’s ethically required under the state’s judicial code of conduct to recuse himself from cases where he has a “ personal bias or prejudice.” He wrote that he believed as “a matter of conscience” that “under no circumstance” would “the best interest of the child … be promoted by the adoption” by a “practicing homosexual.” And because his “conscientious objection to the concept of adoption of a child by a practicing homosexual” could be seen as a “personal bias or prejudice,” Nance disqualified himself from hearing all such cases. Nance’s order was sent out to all attorneys in Metcalfe and Barren counties and directed them to inform the court when they had adoption applications by homosexual parties so another judge could take the...