Okla. adoption rights go to U.S. appellate court

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The law, quickly passed at the end of that state's 2004 legislative session, says that Oklahoma "shall not recognize an adoption by more than one individual of the same sex from any other state or foreign jurisdiction."

In her May decision setting aside the law, U.S. District Judge Robin Cauthron wrote: "The very fact that the adoptions have occurred is evidence that a court of law has found the adoptions to be in the best interests of the children. . . . To now attempt to strip a child of one of his or her parents seems far removed from the statute's purpose and therefore from defendants' asserted important government objective."