I know that child and social service agencies around the country are understaffed and under-funded (but, but... children first! family values! bleat the conservatives), so very likely some amount of the failure of oversight is attributable to that. But that just raises the question, if reducing the number of children in the system is in the DCFS's best interests and they could expand the pool of qualified adoptive families to gay families who meet the standards required by the state to take in children... why not do it?

That they don't, I believe, strongly attests to a moral agenda that is so thinly cloaked as the DCFS "doing its job" it's laughable. And not in a funny way.