03.15.07
Florida state senator vows to repeal state’s ban on adoption by gays
At a press conference outside the Florida state senate chambers in Tallahassee Wednesday, a state senator announced that she would work to end the state’s 30-year-old ban on adoptions by gays. Democratic state senator Nan Rich of Weston said she was sponsoring a bill that would finally repeal the ban on gays and lesbians adopting children, reports Florida Today.
Critics of the ban say that it is unfair and hypocritical, since the state permits members of the LGBT community to be foster parents. Last year, the foster children of gay and lesbian caregivers held a demonstration at the state capitol, protesting that the law prohibited them from being adopted by those they considered to be their parents