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Monday, December 01

Commentary: Equal Protection in Florida

Source: Huffington Post by Emma Ruby-Sachs Excerpt: Last week, a gay couple in Florida won the right to adopt the two boys they had fostered for the past four years. It was a huge win for the Gill-Roe family, but it was also a legal win for LGBT people across the country. In her decision, Justice Lederman...

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Monday, December 01

Commentary: It's time to end Florida gay adoption ban

Source: South Florida Sun-Sentinel by Michael Mayo Excerpt: […] Florida is the only state with an outright ban on gay adoption, but two recent judges' decisions have upended the law. First came Smith's case, in which Monroe Circuit Judge David John Audlin Jr. ruled that Smith could adopt the...

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Wednesday, November 26

Art Leonard: The Florida Adoption Opinion from Miami-Dade

Source: Leonard Link by Arthur S. Leonard Full text by permission. Source retains copyright. Here's the draft I've submitted to Gay City News for this week's issue: For the second time in just a few months, a Florida trial judge has ruled that the state’s statutory ban against adoption of...

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Wednesday, November 26

Art Leonard: Will Florida Officials Flunk the Intelligence Test and Persist in Defending Their Gay Adoption Ban?

Source: Leonard Link by Arthur S. Leonard Full text by permission. Source retains copyright. Florida state officials have been handed a basic intelligence test by Circuit Court Judge Cindy S. Lederman in Miami-Dade County, who ruled this morning that the state's statutory ban on "homosexuals"...

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Wednesday, October 01

Foster Dad Fights Florida Ban On Adoption

Link: WPLG Miami Excerpt: A gay couple from North Miami is fighting to keep two foster children who have seen them as their parents for years. Frank Martin Gill wants to adopt his 4- and 8-year-old foster children, who know no other family. "I'm just trying to do what I believe is the best thing...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog To Form a More Perfect Union: Marriage Equality News on 10-01-2008
Saturday, September 27

FL: Commentary--*** in pointless law gives kids hope

Link: St. Petersburg Times by Sue Carlton Excerpt: If you are qualified to be a foster parent in Florida, willing to take in one of our many kids in need, and you also happen to be gay, no big deal. Our state could use the help. But try this on for hypocrisy. If you want to adopt a child, one of thousands...

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Tuesday, September 23

FL: For gay father, adoption ruling is a defining moment

Link: Miami Herald Excerpt: Wayne Larue Smith and partner Daniel Skahen are the first gay parents in the State of Florida to successfully adopt a foster child of the age of 12. Wayne Larue Smith, left, and partner Daniel Skahen, right, consider themselves good normal parents and have foster children...

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Tuesday, September 16

Kentucky appeals court rejects adoption by lesbian couple

Link: The Courier-Journal Excerpt:In a harshly worded opinion, the Kentucky Court of Appeals has barred judges from allowing lesbians to adopt as though they are a stepparent. Ruling 3-0 in a Jefferson County case, the court said that stepparent adoptions are allowed only when the stepmother or father...

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Tuesday, September 16

Editorial: Florida's shameful gay adoption ban takes another hit

Link: South Florida Sun-Sentinel Excerpt: No, the embarrassing law hasn't been overturned. Yet. Florida remains one of two states in the nation — Mississippi is the other — to ban gay adoption. But when a circuit judge in Monroe County ruled the 31-year-old ban unconstitutional, thus allowing a gay...

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Tuesday, July 08

Art Leonard: New Development in the Watson-Spado Adoption/Inheritance Controversy

Link: Leonard Link by Arthur S. Leonard Full text by permission. Source retains copyright. According to an Associated Press story from July 7 out of Portland, Maine, Patricia Spado has filed an appeal in the Maine Judicial Court, seeking review of Knox County Probate Court Judge Carol R. Emery's...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog To Form a More Perfect Union: Marriage Equality News on 07-08-2008

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