Today, in a unamious ruling, the West Virginia Supreme Court ruled in favor of allowing gay foster parents in Fayette County.

In a unanimous decision released on Friday, the justices determined that Fayette Circuit Judge Paul Blake erred when he allowed the state Department of Health and Human Resources to approve the infant's removal from her foster home.

The child had lived with Kathryn Kutil and Cheryl Hess, a same-sex
couple who had already been approved as foster parents, for her entire
life after having been born to drug-addicted mother in December 2007.

Blake agreed with Thomas Fast, the child's court-appointed
guardian-ad-litem, and the DHHR's recommendation to relocate the child,
and decided that the child would be better off in a home with a
"traditional" family, i.e. a married mother and father.

This is great news for West Virginia families. According to the opinion from the court:

"It is more than apparent that the only reason why [Kutil and Hess]were being replaced as foster care providers was to promote the adoption of [the child] by what [Blake] called in his November 12, 2008, order a 'traditionally defined family, that is, a family consisting of both a mother and a father,'" the opinion reads.

A great way to end the week!

Alison Knezevich of the Gazette assesses the impact of the Iowa decision and the GOP's shameful use of it on the House floor.  Meanwhile, Stephen Skinner debates the Iowa impact on Hoppy and reveals the gay agenda.