Lesbian Couple Sues Missouri Over Fostering Refusal

[davidinalameda]

http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/05/050205ksSuit.htm

The state says Lisa Johnston and Dawn Roginski are exceptionally qualified to be foster parents, but an unwritten state policy prevents them from taking children into their home because they are openly gay.

Johnston has a bachelor's degree in human development and family, with special emphasis on child development. She's an educational consultant who also has worked for an organization that trains foster parents.

Roginski, who has a master's degree in counseling and another in divinity, works as a therapist and chaplain at a treatment center for young people with emotional and behavioral disorders

[beyurslf]

1. Better to have at risk children languish in the system and end up in

prison than have them live in a loving home with two women...

[Terran]

2. My partner and I live in central Missouri (rural, conservative)

and when we see stuff like this, we often turn to each other and paraphrase a line from the film "Chinatown":

"It's Mizoura, Jake." Meaning, some things about this state are just too sad and stupid to contemplate.