Posted on 04/23/2009 2:57:03 PM PDT by MNDude
Should part of Florida Bar give opinion on gay adoption? High Court hears arguments By Tonya Alanez | Tallahassee Bureau 1:08 PM EDT, April 22, 2009 TALLAHASSEE - The Florida Supreme Court heard oral arguments this morning on whether a section of the Florida Bar should be able to weigh in on a Miami appeals court case that will decide whether gay people can adopt children in Florida.
In November, Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Cindy Lederman declared unconstitutional the state's 32-year-old ban on gay adoption and approved the adoption of two brothers, then aged 4 and 8, by a gay man.
Frank Martin Gill had been foster father to the boys for four years.
The state Department of Children & Families, which had custody of the children, has appealed Lederman's decision to the Third District Court of Appeal in Miami.
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One of the Libertarian Platform positions seems to have prevailed somewhere.
If this guy was likely to then don’t you think something would have happened over the past 4 years?
Come soon, Lord! I’m ready and waiting!
Foster parents are checked on by social services. Adoptive parents are not.
With the Weenie Crist as head of the state govt.,
Yeah, fags will get married soon in Florida.
With the Weenie Crist as head of the state govt.,
Yeah, fags will get married soon in Florida,
be allowed to adopt and most probably have more rights than straight Christian folks.
So he's been checked on for 4 years and nothing negative has been discovered.
I think that no one has reckoned with what will happen when "permission" is given. Now, gays are very political, and they know that every eye will be on them until they win full marriage rights all over the U.S. Then, the pressure will be off, and it won't just be the political strivers and poster boys adopting children.
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