More from the "Family Value(less)" file
July 10, 2002
Seems as though those wacky Florida legislators are at it again. In a state that has a hard time even keeping track of it's own foster children, several legislators have signed off on a friend of the court brief saying that gay men and women shouldn't adopt children.
The toughest anti-gay adoption law in the United States got a boost of support from 21 Florida state legislators on Monday.The 21 conservative and mostly Republican legislators filed a friend-of-the-court brief in federal court in favor of the law. The brief could help judges with the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ( news - web sites) in Atlanta decide if Florida's prohibition on gay adoptions is legal.
The legislators are supporting a 1977 ban forbidding gay people from adopting children, a ban that even the Child Welfare League of America is on record as saying is harmful to children
I suppose it's better to let kids sit around in group homes and shelters or be shuttled back and forth between foster placements, than for a --shudder-- couple of fags or dykes to give them the stability and permanency that they deserve.
Family Values indeed.
Posted by Jody at July 10, 2002 10:43 AM
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