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Farewell to the Kentucky Judge Who Wouldn’t Hear LGBT Adoption Cases

Retirement

Judge W. Mitchell Nance said there would be ‘no circumstance’ in which ‘the best interest of the child’ would be ‘promoted by the adoption by a practicing homosexual.’

Samantha Allen
Samantha Allen
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Photo Illustration by Sarah Rogers/The Daily Beast - Photo of Judge by Glasgow Daily Times
Samantha Allen

Samantha Allen

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