so you want to be protective of a child in the future, but if you remove religion, i think it becomes a more clear case. if you leave religion in this file, then you say, oh, well, you can't discriminate against them because of their faith, and that would be right. quick social media reaction. enough bloviating for me. catherine tells me everybody is angry at me this week on social media. no, is the answer. listen, if folks love their kids for real, then they can roll with whatever comes just like bio parents. this is a dumb, provocative question. maybe we should make them a test. i didn't create it out of whole cloth. it's a real case going on in massachusetts on an issue that i'd never given consideration to before, but you're absolutely right, this issue emerges every day in households across the country, but in this situation, from the perspective of the state, what if you could avert a circumstance where parents are unsupportive?