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Wednesday, October 01
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:: A month after a Key West judge declared Florida's gay adoption law unconstitutional in a separate but narrow case, a Miami case will present a new challenge to Florida's 31-year-old law that forbids gay people from adopting. Frank Martin Gill , 47, began a court fight Wednesday to adopt two children he and his partner have cared for since 2004 through the state's foster program. Gill's attorney, Robert F. Rosenwald Jr. of the ACLU, said the case boils down to a simple human equation: "What is at stake in this trial are two little...
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Tuesday, September 30
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Source: Missoulian , Associated Press via Missoulian Missoula, Mont. -- A district court judge ruled Monday that a woman should share custody of children she raised for years with a same-sex partner, who then sought sole custody when the relationship ended. Michelle Kulstad went to court to seek joint custody of two children -- an 8-year-old boy and a 5-year-old girl -- adopted by Barbara Maniaci. Kulstad testified last week that she provided for the children's physical, psychological and developmental needs on a day-to-day basis and "made a commitment to both of them that I would always...
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Tuesday, September 16
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Source: Louisville Courier-Journal , UPI In a harshly worded opinion, the Kentucky Court of Appeals has barred judges from allowing lesbians to adopt as though they are a stepparent. As many as three or four family court judges in Jefferson County may have allowed such adoptions, the opinion said. In its unanimous decision the court noted that marriages between gays are forbidden by both statute and Kentucky's constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, and that stepparent adoptions are allowed only when the stepmother or father is married to the biological parent, Louisville Courier...
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Thursday, September 11
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Source: New York Daily News , Associated Press via Newsday , New York Times A gay father who snatched the son he and his husband adopted has pleaded guilty in New York City to custodial interference, Associated Press reports. He could face up to four years in prison on the charge. Eric Hyett, 37, fled with his son to Israel Aug. 4 during a two-day court-authorized visit. Hyett and Joshua Glazer, 31, were married in a synagogue in Brookline, Mass., on May 17, 2004, becoming one of the first same-sex couples to marry under a new gay-marriage law in Massachusetts, New York Times reports. Two years...
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Wednesday, September 10
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Source: Miami Herald Calling Florida's 31-year-old gay adoption ban unconstitutional, a trial judge in Key West has ruled that an openly gay Key West foster parent can adopt a teenage boy he has raised since 2001, Miami Herald reports. Monroe County Circuit Judge David J. Audlin Jr. said the Florida law forbidding gay people from adopting children is contrary to the state Constitution because it singles out a group for punishment. His ruling also calls the law "contrary to every child welfare principle." Miami attorney Alan Mishael, who represents the boy's guardian, said the...
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Monday, August 25
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Source: KARK TV , Associated Press via Arkansas Democrat Gazette Little Rock, Ark. -- A ballot measure that would ban gay men and lesbians or other non-married couples from adopting or fostering children will appear on the November 4 ballot, its backers have announced. The Arkansas Secretary of State's office approved the necessary signatures for what's called an "initiated act proposal". If adopted, the measure, called the Arkansas Adoption and Foster Care Act, would ban co-habitating couples from adopting or fostering children. A proposed ballot summary states, "it is in...
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Thursday, July 31
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Source: LiveScience.com via Yahoo , Proud Parenting Gay and lesbian couples with children and strong religious beliefs are more likely than their peers to hold commitment ceremonies, a new study of Illinois couples shows. "...mothers and fathers in this study were 3.5 times more likely to have had a commitment ceremony than lesbians or gay men who lived together and had legalized their relationship but had not been part of a commitment ritual," said Ramona Faith Oswald, a University of Illinoise associate professor of family studies. Oswald theorizes that same-sex couples want to model...
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Monday, July 28
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Source: ABC News (US) , On Top Magazine , Atlantic Although the candidate firmly resisted giving a direct answer to any of the commentator's questions on the subject, Senator John McCain strongly suggested in a rambling response to George Stephanopoulos on ABC's This Week that he's opposed to adoption by gay couples. "I am for the values that two parent families, the traditional family represents," McCain replied when Stephanopoulos asked, "So, you’re against gay adoption?". McCain appeared reluctant to address the issue. "My position is, it's not the reason...
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Thursday, July 24
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Source: Anderson Independent-Mail , Greenville News Anderson, SC -- An Anderson man who alleged last week that his father attacked him with a baseball bat "to cast the demons of homosexuality out of him" was charged Wednesday with filing a false police report, according to the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office, Greenville News reports. 18-year-old Dwight Clark Ables told deputies that his 49-year-old father yelled, cursed, swung a baseball bat, and prayed on July 13, reportedly angry with him for attending a gay pride parade. Ables turned himself in after a warrant was issued and was in...
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Monday, July 21
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Source: ABC News (Aus) , Sydney Morning Herald The government of Australia's largest state, New South Wales, wants a federal law amended so children of lesbian couples can seek child support if their parents separate. The state government is lobbying Canberra to amend the Family Law Act so lesbian mothers can access child support payments. NSW Attorney-General John Hatzistergos says the change would complement the federal government's efforts to change federal laws that discriminate against same sex couples. Hatzistergos says co-mothers are not recognized in Family Court proceedings under...
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Saturday, July 19
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Source: Anderson Independent-Mail ANDERSON COUNTY, SC -- An 18-year-old man who returned to his home from a gay pride parade was assaulted by his father with a baseball bat last Sunday, the Anderson Independent Mail reports. Qnews update: SC man who said his father attacked him with bat charged with filing false report During the attack, the teen's 49-year-old father yelled, cursed, swung a baseball bat, prayed and tried to "cast the demon of homosexuality out of him," according to the teen's version of events, given to Deputy S.C. Weymouth, the incident report states. According...
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Thursday, June 19
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Source: Advocate , Law.com , Gay City News The federal government won't recognize same-sex couples, but it should pay benefits to their children, a Justice Department (DOJ) opinion released June 9 has concluded. According to the opinion, federal law does not prohibit the Social Security Administration from paying insurance benefits to the non-biological child of a partner in a Vermont civil union. The decision is notable because the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) bars the federal government from extending benefits to gay and lesbian couples. But the opinion, prepared by Steven Engel, deputy...
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Friday, June 06
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Source: Richmond Times-Union , Northern Virginia Daily , Associated Press Richmond, VA -- A Virginia Supreme Court ruling this morning means a Vermont child custody order in a failed civil union must be enforced here even though same-sex marriages are barred in Virginia, but the right-wing lawyers who lost today's case vowed to continue the legal fight. The unusual, long-running case centers on 6-year-old Isabella, born to then Lisa Miller-Jenkins, after she was artificially inseminated. Miller-Jenkins had entered into a civil union in Vermont with Janet Miller-Jenkins in 2001. The union broke...
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Wednesday, May 21
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Source: The Age , Times (London) BRITAIN has forged landmark new rights for lesbian or gay partners seeking legal recognition as parents. The House of Commons unexpectedly threw out proposals that would have required fertility clinics to consider a child's "need for a father" before providing treatment, enabling two-mother families. The father's role will now be substituted to require the "need for supportive parenting". Both partners will be recognized as parents on birth certificates when lesbian couples conceive with donated sperm or when gay men use surrogacy to...
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Tuesday, May 20
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Source: Baltimore Sun In a decision with broad ramifications for nontraditional families, Maryland's highest court ruled Monday in favor of an adoptive mother who is seeking to deny her former partner visitation rights to a child that both had cared for during their relationship. The case deals with a lesbian couple, but it could affect step-parents and people in other kinds of relationships who have taken on parental roles but do not have biological or adoptive ties to a child. The Maryland Court of Appeals said that "de facto parenthood" is not recognized in Maryland and found that...
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Friday, April 25
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Source: Haaretz , Scopical The State of Israel has agreed for the first time to register an overseas adoption by a gay couple and to grant the child Israeli citizenship, Haaretz reports. The landmark case involves a Cambodia-born boy, now eight years old, who was adopted in 2000 in the United States by two men who hold American and Israeli citizenship. Following his adoption, the boy received American citizenship and was also converted to Judaism. The parents returned to Israel shortly after the adoption, but their applications to the Interior Ministry to recognize the adoption and grant their...
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Thursday, April 24
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Source: News.com.au , SameSame Sydney -- A GAY couple have won a landmark discrimination case after they were banned from becoming foster parents because they are homosexual. The couple, whose identities have been suppressed, took legal action when their application to become foster carers was refused by a welfare agency linked to the Uniting Church. After a hearing the New South Wales (NSW) Administrative Decisions Tribunal has ruled that they were "unlawfully discriminated against on the ground of homosexuality". In its judgment the tribunal said: "The evidence makes it clear that...
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Thursday, April 17
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Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch , Virginian-Pilot The Virginia Supreme Court heard arguments this morning in a long-running custody battle over a 6-year-old girl and two women who entered into a civil union in Vermont but then later broke up. Lisa Miller and Janet Jenkins were Virginia residents in 2000 when they traveled to Vermont to join in a civil union. Miller became pregnant through artificial insemination in 2001 and gave birth to a baby girl named Isabella the next year. The three moved to Vermont in 2002. Miller and Jenkins separated about a year later, and Miller moved back to Virginia...
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Thursday, April 17
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Source: Irish Times , Irish Independent , Press Association , RTE News Dublin -- The Dublin High Court has ruled that a lesbian couple living together in a long-term committed relationship with a child can be regarded as a de facto family enjoying rights under the European Convention on Human Rights. In a judgment that will have an impact on the debate about legislating for same-sex couples, Mr Justice John Hedigan has said that the best interests of a child lay in remaining with his mother and her female partner. A gay friend of a lesbian couple who donated his sperm to one of them, resulting...
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Thursday, March 27
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Source: LA Daily News , Daily Breeze King shooting When a gay teenager was gunned down earlier this year at an Oxnard school, the violence resulted in the unexpected: Young people, gay and straight, rallied across the nation for civil rights. And even at an age when they're grappling with their own fragile sexuality, teens weren't afraid to stand up for the classmate who had been different. "In middle school, you don't think about your own sexuality so much as you think of what society thinks is normal for kids, and you try to blend in," said 18-year-old Luis Roman, a gay...
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Monday, March 24
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Source: Leonard Link (legal blog), ACLU press release ATLANTA -- A long and bizarrely complicated legal nightmare has ended for Elizabeth Hadaway, who was convicted of criminal contempt of court last year for not handing her daughter over to foster care after she lost custody solely because she's a lesbian. A year and one day after a county court judge sentenced Hadaway to 10 days in jail, the Georgia Court of Appeals on Monday overturned her contempt conviction. "None of this would have ever happened if the trial court had recognized this child's needs and not been swayed by misguided...
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Monday, February 11
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Source: Ha'aretz and Reuters JERUSALEM -- Israel's attorney general said on Sunday that same sex-couples will be allowed to adopt children that are not biologically linked to either partner. Meni Mazuz decided that gay adults will be allowed to adopt the biological or adopted child of their partner and, in some cases, even adopt children not connected to them. Courts in the Jewish state in the past have only allowed gay adults to adopt the child of their partner, the justice ministry said. "It was decided there is no legal hindrance from approving same-sex couples, or one of the partners...
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Friday, January 18
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Source: Radio Iowa and Associated Press via Press-Citizen DES MOINES, Iowa -- The Iowa Supreme Court today ruled that a gay woman's adoption of her partner's children was legal and that a district court erred by saying it didn't have jurisdiction to rule over custody issues in the case. The Iowa Supreme Court has upheld the right of a Polk County woman to seek custody of the children from the relationship she had with another woman. The two women, Jamie Lee Schott and Heather Joye Schott, began their relationship in the summer of 2000. At that time Jamie and her son Caleb moved in with...
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Friday, January 18
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Source: Salt Lake Tribune When Merrilee Bowser came out as a lesbian eight years ago, she worried about how people would react. But she found acceptance - "only nice people" - and today is comfortable being open about her "two-moms family." "Yeah, we get looked at but we look at people, too," said Bowser, 27, who has been with partner Summer Bowser for six years. "It is becoming more open for people and people are more comfortable." That's what the Williams Institute, based at the University of California at Los Angeles, concludes in a new "census...
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Sunday, December 09
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Source: Ynetnews A broad panel of High Court judges on Sunday ordered the Interior Ministry to implement one of the court's previous rulings which mandated that a lesbian couple be recognized as the legal parents of one of the women's children. The final decision is to be rendered in two weeks. The legal debate was held before a nine-judge panel led by High Court President Dorit Beinish. The justices discussed the legality of the adoption after the Interior Ministry requested that the court consider changing a previous ruling it had made on the matter in 2000. In the earlier verdict, the...
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Tuesday, December 04
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Source: The Guardian A lesbian claiming child support from her firefighter friend who donated sperm for two children has rejected his claim that he is being unfairly treated. Andy Bathie, 37, said yesterday that he was being made to support their son and daughter, in a case believed to be the first of its kind in Britain. He claimed the women, who approached him five years ago after other male friends declined to become donors, assured him he would have no personal or financial involvement in the children's upbringing. But today Terri Arnold - who has since separated from her partner Sharon...
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Sunday, December 02
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Source: Newsday A Nassau County man who said he donated sperm to a female co-worker as a friendly gesture - and then sent presents and cards to the child over the years - is legally considered the father and may have to pay child support for the college-bound teenager, according to a judge's ruling. "What's the saying? No good deed goes unpunished," said Deborah Kelly, a Garden City lawyer for the man, who acknowledged that he is named as the father on the child's birth certificate. Like all the involved parties, the man remains anonymous because of privacy concerns. Nassau...
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Wednesday, November 28
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Source: Times of India MUMBAI -- A family, traditionally, has meant man, woman and child. Not any more, as children raised by gay and lesbian couples are on the rise internationally. As per one rough estimate, between one and six million children in the United States are raised by same-sex couples. Laws differ from country to country and even state to state. In the US, Florida is the only state that bans anyone who is a "homosexual" from adopting a child. Utah does that indirectly by restraining unmarried couples from adopting. Washington DC and 11 states, including California, Connecticut...
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Saturday, November 24
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Source: EastOttawa.ca (Orleans Star) Aiming to encourage the spirit of inclusiveness in Orléans (Ontario), east-end families gathered this past weekend to participate in a local art project celebrating the diversity of area families. On Saturday, Nov. 17, the Ontario Early Years Centre Ottawa-Orléans (OEYC) played host to the Around the Rainbow Project’s art initiative, a workshop that brings together local children aged zero to six and their loved ones to create works of art that represent their unique family units. It was also a wrap-up of the training process Around the Rainbow began with the...
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Sunday, November 18
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Source: Times (London) and Sunday Mail The Government was accused today of driving the “last nail in the coffin” of the traditional family with moves to grant gay couples equal parenting rights. Iain Duncan Smith, a former Conservative leader, spoke out against plans to allow lesbian couples to become joint legal parents of children conceived used donated sperm or eggs. His comments, in an article for the Mail on Sunday, came as the proposals are due to come before the House of Lords in the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill on Monday. The bill introduces new regulations governing the creation...
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