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Florida is the only state in the union that prohibits homosexuals from adopting children. (The law banning gay adoption is currently being protested in the court of appeals.) Many states do not support second-parent adoption among gay couples, but even Mormon-filled Utah allows homosexual individuals to adopt. Florida attorney general (and Republican gubernatorial candidate) Bill McCollum not only supports the gay adoption ban, he wants to bar gay people from serving as foster parents as well. The Orlando Sentinel says they’re “breathlessly awaiting his next attempt to dehumanize Florida’s gays and lesbians.”
SheWired reports McCollum actually paid “disgraced ex-gay leader George Rekers to testify in support of the state’s law that bans adoptions by gay people.” McCollum cites his religious beliefs as motivating his political decisions, saying, “I really do not think that we should have homosexuals guiding our children.” Continue reading »
The judge who overturned Florida’s ban on gay parents adopting children has been demoted. Judge Cindy Lederman made Florida history in November 2008, granting the adoption of the children of a gay foster dad who had been raising them all their lives. Judge Lederman called the ban unconstitutional.
After her ruling, the state Continue reading »
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