Anti-gay groups: Virginia to introduce "mandatory gay adoption"!

Maggie Gallagher, the anti-gay marriage activist and columnist, has breaking news out of Virginia. Soon, she reports, the commonwealth will introduce mandatory gay adoption. That's right: Everyone in Virgina will belong to gay and lesbian couples. Or something, writes Alex Pareene on Salon:

Rep. Anthony Weiner may have joked about "mandatory gay marriage," at the WH Correspondents dinner, but amazingly, Virginia’s Dept. of Social Services is proposing new regulations that would require all adoption and foster-care agencies to do gay adoptions.

Yesterday was the last day to comment on these regs, if you are in Virginia or an expert on why driving competent foster care and adoption agencies out of business hurts children.

Huh. This is about Virginia's proposed new "Minimum Standards for Licensed Private Child-Placing Agencies," which seem to be mostly about clarifying and in many cases simplifying existing regulations. But there is that secret "mandatory gay adoption" trap, buried deep within. Here's the relevant text from the proposed new regulations.