Florida bill will repeal gay adoption ban - from Pink News - all the latest gay news from the gay community - Pink News


A bill to repeal a 1977 ruling against gays and lesbians adopting in Florida, US, has been introduced.

It is sponsored by state senator Nan Rich, a Democrat from Weston, who is introducing another bill to grant judges the discretion to determine adoptions solely on “the best interests” of the child.

She told the Miami Herald: "Someone who is a good parent – whether they are heterosexual or homosexual – that's what we should be basing decisions on, not sexual orientation.

"We need to be looking at what's in the best interest of children.”

Last summer, Miami-Dade circuit judge Cindy Lederman ruled that two gay men in the state could legally adopt the four and eight-year-old half-brothers they had cared for since 2004.

Her 53-page ruling found the law to be unconstitutional and to have “no rational basis.”

This week, a judge ordered that a pro-gay student club at a Florida school must be allowed to meet.

District judge Henry Adams issued the decision yesterday in a case involving two students from Yullee High School near Jacksonville.

Hannah Page and Jacob Brock had formed a Gay-Straight Alliance club after being targeted with abuse by other students, but the school objected to the group's name.

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This is really good news, I feel really happy for the gay couples in Florida. As the report stated it shouldn't be about what sexual oreintation these couples are, but how good parents they are or could be. I think that if more states followed suit with this then I think more people will be more open minded and support everyone's equality.

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