Banning gay adoption
ACLU "Deeply Disappointed" by Court Decision Dismissing Challenge of Regulation Banning Gay Adoption Statement of Matt Coles, Director, ACLU Lesbian &#; Lgbtq+ Rights Project
August 30, am
ACLU "Deeply Disappointed" by Court Conclusion Dismissing Challenge of Law Banning Same-sex attracted Adoption Statement of Matt Coles, Director, ACLU Lesbian & Gay Rights Project
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MIAMI--Today, a federal judge in Miami dismissed the American Civil Liberties Union's Lesbian & Gay Rights Project's lawsuit challenging a Florida law which prohibits children from being adopted by lesbians and male lover men.
We are surprised and deeply disappointed by today's decision. We also think the conclusion is wrong.
This judge admitted that the gay families in this case have the alike relationships that physiological parents and their children have. But he said that didn't matter. They aren't protected by the Constitution.
The judge also said it's just pleasant for the mention to allow people who everyone knows pose a actual threat to children -- like substance abusers and minor abusers -- to apply
"Why haven't you two left Mississippi?"
That is a frequent question asked of me, Susan, and my wife Kathy over the years. Truth be told, the thought has crossed our minds. Years ago, we even got maps out and dreamed about where we might want to go.
Ultimately, we chose to stay in Mississippi because we wanted to be a part of the change we knew would come. We wanted our nearly four-decades-long relationship and hard-earned visibility in our community to be a testament to other LGBTQ Mississippians coming after us.
We don't want others to be required to acquiesce to Southern "respectability" by denying their humanity or hiding as society expected of us in when we'd draw the blinds inside our home.
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Adoption agency should be fit to reject gay couples, Trump administration argues
The Trump administration submitted a concise to the Supreme Court on Wednesday arguing that a taxpayer-funded organization should be able to deny to work with gay couples and others whom the group considers to be in violation of its religious beliefs.
The short was filed by the Department of Justice in the case Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, which centers on the refusal of Catholic Social Services, a religious nonprofit that operates a child welfare agency in Philadelphia, to place adoptive and foster children with same-sex couples in violation of the city’s nondiscrimination ordinance.
In its brief, the government argued that “Philadelphia has impermissibly discriminated against religious exercise,” and that the city’s actions “reflect unconstitutional hostility toward Catholic Social Services’ religious beliefs.”
The latter argument cites a recent Supreme Court case in which the government intervened on behalf of baker Jack Phillips who refused to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple due
LGBT rights: Hungary passes law banning same-sex adoption
Hungarian lawmakers on Tuesday passed a law that bans queer couples from adopting children.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban's conservative government proposed the legislation earlier this year, and his Fidesz party has a two-thirds majority in parliament.
The law says only married couples can adopt children and unattached people can only adopt with special permission from the state.
Adoption by gay and lesbian couples had been possible until now if one partner applied as a single person.
Hungarian Family affairs minister Katalin Novak, a conservative who promotes the traditional family model, would now have to give her approval to requests from single people.
Gay marriage is forbidden in Hungary.
Hungary's parliament also backed a change to the constitution that defined what a family is. "The mother is a woman, the father is a man," the amendment said.
Rights groups and LGBT activists speak it excludes alternative family types. They also argue the changes have been rammed through at a time when protests ha