South Dakota is the first state to legalize anti-LGBTQ discrimination in 2017
Source: LGBTQ Nation
By Erin Rook · Sunday, March 12, 2017
South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard has earned the dubious distinction of being the first governor to sign a law legalization discrimination against LGBTQ people in 2017.
On Friday, Daugaard signed into law a bill that allows adoption agencies to deny LGBTQ families services and child placement for “religious” reasons and makes clear that the state is not to punish or discriminate against agencies that do. That decision stands in contrast to his veto last year of a “bathroom bill” that would have allowed South Dakota schools to decide which restrooms transgender students are allowed to use.
The governor had been silent on the matter before signing the bill until Friday, the Argus Leader reports, when Daugaard said he was concerned about the child-placement agencies facing lawsuits for denying placement to someone in a “protected class,” such as the LGBTQ community.
“I’m worried that a child placement agency may make what is in the best interest of the child a correct decision but be subject to a lawsuit by someone who has a little bit of a leg up by virtue of being in a protective class,” he said. “And if we can forestall that with this legislation then I’m willing to do that.”
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I agree that the best interest of the children is paramount. For instance, a child already attached to a single foster parent who wishes to adopt her should not be yanked away to put in a two-parent family if the single parent can provide a stable home for her. Love is love.
In general, however, I do think it is in the best interests of the child to be placed in a two-parent stable home, but there are a lot of exceptions to that rule, and not enough two-parent homes to go around. Parenting is emotionally draining, expensive, and time-consuming, so having another parent in the house is usually in the best interest of the child.
And, yeah, I do believe that if a birth parent is willingly placing her child for adoption, she should be able to choose who she wants to raise her child.
Just when I thought I couldn't hate these motherfuckers more, they keep pulling this shit again and again and my contempt and rage against them grows more every day. 
