NYT: Supreme Court Declines to Hear Case on Adoption by Gay People

[kskiska]

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 -- The Supreme Court declined today to hear a challenge to Florida's ban on adoption by gay people, the only such state law in the country.

The justices refused without comment to consider an appeal by four Florida men who had argued that the 1977 law violated their rights to equal protection under the United States Constitution, and that it was irrational because it automatically excluded potential adoptive parents for abandoned children.

The case, Lofton v. Secretary of the Florida Department of Children and Families, 04-478, had been closely watched as a possible test case. But with the Supreme Court's refusal to consider it, the final word is that of the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, in Atlanta.

A three-judge panel of the circuit ruled last January that the Florida Legislature had the right to enact the law. The full circuit voted, 6 to 6, not to review the panel's conclusion, leaving the plaintiffs with only a possible appeal to the Supreme Court, a hope that was dashed today.

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[merwin]

1. Somewhat of a dupe... same news item, slightly different spin

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1138001

[Maraya1969]

2. And this from the great state that actually loses kids in their

Foster care system!

I think the people who are fighting to refuse gays the right to adopt should be required to spend time in a children's home and meet the kids that they are unjustly incarcerating.

[Zenlitened]

3. That's a good suggestion. Have them look into the eyes of a child...

... who wants, desperately wants, a family. :cry:

[Moderator]

4. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1138001