Florida Gays Can Adopt As Per Judge

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Judge overturns Florida ban on adoption by gays

CNN) -- A Florida circuit judge declared unconstitutional Tuesday a 31-year-old state law that prevents gays and lesbians from adopting children, saying "the blanket exclusion" of gay applicants "defeated Florida's goal of providing dependent children a permanent family."

"The best interests of children are not preserved by prohibiting homosexual adoption," Judge Cindy S. Lederman wrote in her 53-page ruling.

Florida is the only state that specifically bans all "homosexual" people from adopting children, although it does allow them to be foster parents.

This month, Arkansas voters approved a ballot measure to prohibit unmarried partners -- same-sex or opposite-sex couples -- from adopting children or from serving as foster parents.

The measure is similar to one in Utah, which excludes same-sex couples indirectly through a statute barring all unmarried couples from adopting or taking in foster children.

Mississippi allows single gays and lesbians to adopt but prohibits same-sex couples from adopting.

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The Mississippi law makes no sense. Why can single gays adopt but not couples. What happens if you adopt while single then a year or two later meet the perfect partner. Now you're a couple, do they come and take away the kid? :confused:
 

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The child has a loving parent. period.

Gad- hasn't there been enough studies about the gay parent does not = gay child yet?

c'mon, find something else to worry about.... um....people wearing white after labor day..STONE THEM!
 

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The child has a loving parent. period.
Gad- hasn't there been enough studies about the gay parent does not = gay child yet?

c'mon, find something else to worry about.... um....people wearing white after labor day..STONE THEM!
OMG! I so totally agree. What is with people wearing straw hats when there is frost on the ground? Straw hats should have been packed away in a box after Yom Kippur.