{"id":13596,"date":"2017-04-28T21:04:59","date_gmt":"2017-04-29T01:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/?p=13596"},"modified":"2017-05-08T21:01:02","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T01:01:02","slug":"judge-refuses-to-hear-adoption-cases-involving-gay-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2017\/04\/28\/judge-refuses-to-hear-adoption-cases-involving-gay-adults\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Refuses To Hear Adoption Cases Involving Gay Adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1051\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2015\/10\/02\/judge-suspended-without-pay\/judge-gavel-generic\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Judge-gavel-generic.jpg?fit=247%2C139&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"247,139\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Judge-gavel-generic\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Judge-gavel-generic.jpg?fit=247%2C139&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Judge-gavel-generic.jpg?resize=247%2C139\" alt=\"\" width=\"247\" height=\"139\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1051\" \/><br \/>\nA Kentucky family court judge says he will not hear any more adoption cases that involve gay adults.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Judge Mitchell Nance issued an order Thursday saying he believes that &#8220;under no circumstance&#8221; would &#8220;the best interest of the child be promoted by the adoption by a practicing homosexual.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nance cited an ethical rule that says judges must disqualify themselves when they have a personal bias or prejudice.<\/p>\n<p>Nance&#8217;s order said lawyers representing gay people in adoptions in Barren and Metcalfe counties would have to request a special judge.<\/p>\n<p>He said on Friday that he issued the order to avoid a long delay if a case involving gay parents was filed in his court.<\/p>\n<p>Circuit Judge John T. Alexander said he would hear any adoption cases affected by Nance&#8217;s recusal.<br \/>\nSource: AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Kentucky family court judge says he will not hear any more adoption cases that involve gay adults.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":1051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Judge-gavel-generic.jpg?fit=247%2C139&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6aKAp-3xi","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-02 02:43:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13597,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13596\/revisions\/13597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}