Spanish judge fined for refusing to allow adoption by lesbian couple

Catholic News Agency: “Next month, former Judge Fernando Ferrin Calamita will be forced to pay the Spanish government $127,000 for denying a lesbian couple’s request to adopt a girl. … In Ferrin’s ruling he ordered a report be obtained from experts on the consequences the adoption would have on the girl’s development. In December of 2009, the Supreme Court suspended him, fined him $919 and ordered him to pay the couple $7,661.”