Court on overturning gay adoption ban: There is no explanation or excuse to break this family apart

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Florida Governor Charlie Crist (I) and George Sheldon, head of the state’s Department of Children and Families (DCF), said on September 22 that they would no longer enforce the state ban on adoption by gay men and lesbians.

The announcements came Wednesday after a state appeals court upheld a trial court decision that found the ban unconstitutional. The appeals court said that Frank Martin Gill, a gay man, has the right to adopt the two boys he and his partner have raised for almost six years.

In a concurring opinion, Third District Court Judge J. Salter pointed out that the case really involved five people: Gill, the two children, Gill’s partner, and the partner’s biological son.

“The bonds of attachment that have formed over the past six years are not limited to those between the two adopted children and the petitioner;” wrote Salter. “The children have also established strong bonds with Tom Roe (a pseudonym) and his son (and they with the children). . . . The continued use of the legal system to attempt to unwind these relationships is simply inexplicable.”

http://www.keennewsservice.com/2010/09/23/florida-wont-enforce-adoption-ban/

Hmmm, whatever happened to being pro-family, eh, homophobes?

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