Baby Got Back

Strike that. Reverse it. A day after Judge Scott Johansen made the absurd decision to remove a foster child from the home of a lesbian couple (citing imaginary research that suggests children do better when raised by heterosexual families), the Utah judge has reversed the order. It’s reasonable to assume that this ruling would have been reversed at some point, but the swift nature of the about-face is a testament to growing power of social media outrage.