In Florida, foster parents keep parenting, despite ruling
Florida doesn't think would-be adoptive dad Doug Houghton is a suitable parent because he's gay. But someone still has to get 11-year-old Oscar ready for school, and the person who's done that for most of his life is Houghton, the boy's legal guardian since he was 3. ''I wish the judges could spend a weekend at our home,'' said a disappointed Houghton, 41. Houghton, a trauma nurse at Jackson Memorial Hospital, is one of four gay men who filed a lawsuit in 1999 claiming that the adoption ban violates their constitutional rights. The court ruling Wednesday was a setback for their case.
Miami Herald
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