Appeals court rejects adoption by lesbian couple

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Appeals court rejects adoption by lesbian couple
Ky. ruling chides judge in 'stepparent-like' case

By Andrew Wolfson • awolfson@courier-journal.com • September 16, 2008

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080916/NEWS01/809160428

In a harshly worded opinion, the Kentucky Court of Appeals has barred judges from allowing lesbians to adopt as though they are a stepparent.
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Ruling 3-0 in a Jefferson County case, the court said that stepparent adoptions are allowed only when the stepmother or father is married to the biological parent, and marriages between gays are forbidden by both statute and Kentucky's constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

In a 62-page ruling issued Friday about the case, the court said that with a "wink-wink" and a "nod-nod," Family Court Judge Eleanore Garber and lawyers for a lesbian couple ignored those laws.