Court Clears the Way for Gay Adoptions in Florida
A Florida appeals court has struck down that state's draconian ban on gay adoption, the only explicit prohibition against adoptive gay parents in the country. The court really had no choice, since there's nothing wrong with gay parents and they appear to raise superior children.
A Florida appeals court has struck down that state’s draconian ban on gay adoption, the only explicit prohibition against adoptive gay parents in the country. The court really had no choice, since there’s nothing wrong with gay parents and they appear to raise superior children.
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Florida Gov. Charlie Crist said the state will stop enforcing its law banning adoption by gay people after an appeals court ruled it unconstitutional.
Crist announced the decision Wednesday after the ruling from the 3rd District Court of Appeal in Miami. The ruling affirms a lower court’s decision that there is no rational basis for the ban, making way for the adoption of two foster children by Martin Gill and his male partner.
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Although gay marriage and adoption by same-sex couples are still not fully sanctioned in the real world, things are different in at least one corner of the virtual realm Take "Fable III," for example, which gives gamers free rein (continued).
Following last week's diplomatically embarrassing -- and for the child in question, no doubt traumatizing -- fiasco involving a 7-year-old Russian boy whose adoptive American mom returned him to Moscow alone a year after bringing him to the States (continued).
Eight of the 10 Baptist missionaries accused of kidnapping have been sent packing by a Haitian judge, who said he had not finished questioning the group's leader and nanny. The judge said that parents of children taken by the missionaries made statements in their defense, AP reports.
Indeed it is too soon, says actress Angelina Jolie, who has three adopted children, from Cambodia, Ethiopia and Vietnam. In the wake of allegations of child kidnapping and fears of child trafficking in Haiti, Jolie has come out to make the very uncontroversial assertion that "an emergency is not the time for new adoptions."
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