Idaho's top court grants adoptive rights to spouse in gay marriagehttp://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/11/us-usa-idaho-adoption-idUSBREA1A09M20140211Reuters; Laura Zuckerman
Idaho's top court on Monday ruled that state law allows a woman to adopt the children of her same-sex spouse, in a precedent-setting victory for gay couples [. . .]
The Idaho Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision reversing the lower court's ruling, said a person's gender or sexual orientation was not part of the legal criteria that allowed a minor to be adopted by an in-state adult resident.
The magistrate judge mistakenly ruled marriage and adoption statutes "somehow relate to the same subject matter" and failed to apply the literal words of the state's adoption law as required, Jones wrote.
