Louisiana Senate committee kills gay adoption measure

[WillParkinson]

A measure that would have expanded adoption rights to Louisiana same-sex parents and unmarried couples died in a Senate committee Tuesday.

The bill was a combination of two measures that would allow unmarried couples to adopt and allow an existing parent to petition a court to be a second legal parent. But debate centered around the rights of same-sex couples.

“This bill is nothing more than social experimentation using our children as guinea pigs,” the Rev. Louis Husser of Crossgate Church told Nola.com.

Louisiana law now allows only married couples and single individuals to adopt. It is possible for a gay couple to adopt a child, but only one parent is given legal rights.

Gov. Bobby Jindal’s office registered the governor’s opposition to the bill, Nola.com reported, but nobody from the administration testified during the committee hearing.

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