By Howard Fischer | Capitol Media Services/Arizona Capitol Times
The former head of the state’s child safety agency said Monday it was Attorney General Mark Brnovich and not he who precipitated a February decision to stop allowing married gay couples to jointly adopt or become foster parents.
Charles Flanagan said Monday the Department of Child Safety was perfectly content living with the advice it had received last fall from former Attorney General Tom Horne that it should treat all married couples the same. That followed a federal court ruling voiding Arizona’s constitutional amendment limiting marriage to one man and one woman.