Florida Adoption Ban Declared Unconstitutional
http://www.bilerico.com/2008/09/florida_adoption_ban_declared_unconstitu.php9/10/2008
Florida Circuit Court Judge David J. Audlin, Jr.has granted the petition of a gay man to adopt the child who was placed in his home as a foster child in 2001 and whose legal guardians the man and his partner of 15 years became in 2006. The child is identified in the court documents as John Doe.
To grant the adoption, the judge had to find unconstitutional Florida's ban on adoption by lesbians and gay men. In so finding, the judge reviewed what was said about the ban when it was enacted in 1977 and concluded that the origin of the ban was a politically charged climate, dominated by Anita Bryant's anti-gay crusade that resulted in the repeal of the Miami anti-discrimination ordinance.
