Wednesday March 5, 2003

FLORIDA HOMOSEXUAL ADOPTION BAN UNDER ATTACK

MIAMI, March 5, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A federal appeals court is reviewing the constitutionality of Florida's ban on homosexual adoption - a law that currently protects the country's 3,400 foster children from both homosexual individuals and live-in homosexual partners seeking to formally adopt children.

The lawsuit was filed by four homosexual individuals who already have charge over some foster children. Children First lawyer Christina Zawisza says the state does not practice its own stated belief that two-parent heterosexual families are better for children -- because 40% of state child placements are in single-parent homes.

"It has to be contrasted with not having any kind of stable relationship at all," Judge Stanley Birch says. "The rationality of it, other than some kind of moral affirmation, is kind of hard for me to grasp."

For newswire coverage:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030304/ap_on_re_us/gay_adoptions_6

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