Appeals court upholds Florida gay adoption ban
The federal appeals court in Atlanta today upheld a Florida law that bans adoption by any gay person. The court, in a ruling written by Judge Stanley Birch, turned down a challenge by four gay men seeking to adopt children they are raising. "We exercise great caution when asked to take sides in an ongoing public policy debate, such as the current one over the compatibility of homosexual conduct with the duties of adoptive parenthood," Birch wrote. "...we have found nothing in the Constitution that forbids this policy judgment." The ACLU said, "The only purpose the ban could possibly serve is the forbidden one: expressing the state's disapproval of lesbians and gay men." Currently more than 3,000 children await adoption in Florida foster care homes.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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