Same Sex Parents Unable to Adopt in Utah

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Tribune Forum Letter by Elaine Ball

First published Jan 29 2011 01:01AM

The front-page article “Without marriage, same-sex parents unable to adopt” (Tribune, Jan. 24) was both heartwarming and heart-wrenching.

I am a lesbian in a committed relationship of two-plus years. Like the family in the article, my partner and I hope to raise our children in Utah because here we have supportive and loving friends and extended family members.

I hope that people recognize that their doctrinal belief that two people of the same sex should not have the right to marry one another prevents families like ours from adopting children who need stable, loving homes such as ours.

We are 26 and 30 years of age. We plan to be together for the entirety of our lives. We can’t adopt, yet how is it that two people of the opposite sex who only just met can casually jaunt down to Vegas, be married by Elvis and have the legal right of adoption in this great, moral state of Utah?

Elaine Ball

Salt Lake City

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