FL court: ban on gays adopting is unconstitutional

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FL court: ban on gays adopting is unconstitutional
by: Pam Spaulding
Wed Sep 10, 2008 at 10:00:00 AM EDT

http://pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=F6630DFA65133AEF8F01C7AAB61AFB7A?diaryId=6935

And what are you going to say about this, Charlie Crist?

    A Monroe Circuit Court judge has ruled Florida's 31-year-old gay adoption ban ''unconstitutional'' in an order that allows an openly gay Key West foster parent to adopt a teenage boy he has raised since 2001.

    Declaring the adoption to be in the boy's ''best interest,'' Circuit Judge David J. Audlin Jr. said the Florida law forbidding gay people from adopting children is contrary to the state Constitution because it singles out a group for punishment.