“Advocates fear attack on gay adoption by Louisiana lawmaker”
Louisiana government has since 2001 had a Commission on Marriage and Family, a sort of mom-and-apple-pie political concept that comes as no surprise in a socially conservative state.
Perhaps the only astonishment is that the commission has done little since its inception under Gov. Mike Foster and renewal, at least on paper, under Gov. Kathleen Blanco.
But the group’s chairwoman and original legislative sponsor, Sen. Sharon Weston Broome, D-Baton Rouge, promises that’s about to change and plans to call a meeting some time in January . . .