A federal appeals court upheld Florida's ban on same-sex adoptions yesterday while curbing the Supreme Court's landmark Texas sodomy ruling. In coming to its decision, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals held that the Lawrence vs. Texas decision last year did not create a new fundamental right to private sexual intimacy. The court said the Texas case, which found criminal homosexual sodomy statutes unconstitutional, did not control the Florida adoption case because the ban on adoption was not a criminal prohibition but was a statutory privilege. The 11th Circuit in Atlanta, sitting as a full court of 12 judges, refused...