Joy Behar begins her double duty next week with her nightly show on HLN (formerly CNN Headline News). (She remains on The View, thank God!).

Anyway, Joy has kick-started her HLN gig by writing a commentary for CNN’s website about the Ukrainian government dismissing out of hand any possibility of Elton John and his partner David Furnish adopting an HIV-positive boy from the country. The reason:” Elton is too old and the couple are not married.

Here’s part of what Joy says about it:

They immediately fell in love with the child, but their possible bid to adopt the adorable tiny dancer was rejected by Yuriy Pavlenko, Ukraine’s Family, Youth and Sports Minister.

Mr. Pavlenko, here are some tips about family, youth and sports. Family doesn’t mean a huddle of orphans sharing a few soiled mattresses, it’s not youth if you die of AIDS before you reach kindergarten, and wrestling over dinner scraps is not a sport.

But that could be Lev’s fate now, because the Ukrainian government said Elton and his beau David Furnish are too old to adopt the boy. It sounds like the real reason is they’re too gay.

John and Furnish tied the knot in 2005, becoming one of Britain’s first gay civil unions, but Ukraine doesn’t recognize gay unions.

Ukrainian Orthodox Church spokesman Father Georgy Gulyaev called Elton John a sinner and said, “thank God it’s impossible under Ukrainian law for [him] to adopt a child.” Apparently in the Ukraine, God’s No. 1 priority is preventing gay couples from giving sick kids a better life. God would never want something like that to happen.

To read all of Joy’s commentary, click HERE.

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