Official: No Ukrainian adoption for Elton John

Official: No Ukrainian adoption for Elton John

(Kiev, Ukraine) Elton John will not be able to adopt a 14-month-old Ukrainian child because the pop star is too old and isn’t traditionally married, Ukraine’s minister for family affairs said Monday.

The pop signer toured a hospital for HIV-infected children in eastern Ukraine on Saturday as part of a charity project and said that he and his male partner David Furnish wanted to adopt an HIV-infected boy named Lev.

But the country’s Family, Youth and Sports Minister Yuriy Pavlenko told The Associated Press that adoptive parents must be married and Ukraine does not recognize homosexual unions as marriage.

John and Furnish, his longtime partner, tied the knot in 2005 in one of the first legalized civil unions in the United Kingdom.

Pavlenko also said John was too old. The singer is 62 and Ukrainian law requires a parent to be no more than 45 years older than an adopted child.

“Foreign citizens who are single have no right to adopt children … and the age difference between the adopter and the child cannot be more than 45 years,” Pavlenko said. “The law is the same for everybody: for a president, for a minister, for Elton John.”

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Please post this in Entertainment as well !

They let that baby languish in a hospital and without parents - people make me sick.

Sorry - I'd like to bash stupid homophobic Ukrainians, but they do a pretty good job of it themselves.

The only reason that guy would even give a shit is to try to hurt the adopting parents in the name of some absurd morality, at the expense of a sick kiddo who will otherwise never be adopted or have a loving family home.

My spidey sense says Elton refused to cross palms with a personal bribe, and this is the result.

So Elton "Civil Unions Are Just As Good As Marriage For Gays" John gets discriminated against because he's not married. If a child weren't involved, I'd find this hilarious.

Hopefully, the kid will be adopted by someone who'd make a better role model.

...and the combination really breeds ignorance.