San Francisco isn't the only hot-spot in the nation for gay rights. However, where SanFran is enjoying civil disobedience and is (rightly, IMO) giving gays the right to marry, my good buddy GW's brother Jeb is trampling rights in Florida.
ACLU asks court to reconsider support of state's gay adoption ban
Associated Press
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The American Civil Liberties Union asked a federal appeals court on Wednesday to reconsider its recent ruling upholding a Florida law that excludes gay people from adopting. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta ruled last month against four gay men, who are foster parents seeking to adopt children in their care. They want the court to overturn a 1977 law, passed in the heyday of Anita Bryant's anti-homosexual campaign, that leaves Florida as the only state with a complete ban on adoption by gays.
"For the sake of the thousands of children in Florida in need of a home, we hope the court will reconsider," said Matt Coles, director of the ACLU's New-York based Lesbian and Gay Rights Project. "The Florida law was passed to punish gay people, but the sad, harsh reality is that it harms the 4,800 children who are languishing in Florida's foster care system and waiting to be adopted into permanent, loving homes," said Howard Simon, Executive Director of the ACLU of Florida.
Gov. Jeb Bush said after last month's court decision that it "validates" Florida's conclusion "that it is in the best interest of adoptive children, many of whom come from troubled and unstable backgrounds, to be placed in a home anchored both by a father and a mother." The law has withstood several challenges in state court.
Gay couples in Florida can evidently be foster parents, but are denied the right to adopt children. Explain to me how that makes sense? What kind of idiot governor...oh, wait. Never mind. I can't imagine why a loving adoptive home, regardless of the genders of those who head it, is not better for a child than remaining in foster care.