Adoptn agency should be able to reject gay upl, Tmp admistratn argu

Contents:

• ADOPTN AGENCY SHOULD BE ABLE TO REJECT GAY UPL, TMP ADMISTRATN ARGU
• OUR PARENTS ARE GAY. ARE OUR FAI GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE SUPREME COURT?
• RSIA'S PUT SIGNS LAW LIMG ADOPTN BY GAYS
• FLORIDA COURT CALLS BAN ON GAY ADOPTNS UNLAWFUL
• COURT BACKS FLORIDA BAN ON ADOPTN BY GAYS
• RSIA ENACTS ANTI-GAY ADOPTN BAN
• TENNSEE GOV. BILL LEE SIGNS BILL ALLOWG ADOPTN AGENCI TO NY GAY UPL
• FLORIDA BAN ON GAY ADOPTN UNNSTUTNAL, URT L

ADOPTN AGENCY SHOULD BE ABLE TO REJECT GAY UPL, TMP ADMISTRATN ARGU

”The latter argument c a recent Supreme Court se which the ernment tervened on behalf of baker Jack Phillips who refed to bake a weddg ke for a gay uple due to his relig beliefs.

The anizatn argued that to provi the servic to gay upl vlated s nstutnal rights to ee relig exercise and ee speech. Over 21 percent of gay upl are raisg adopted children, pared wh 3 percent of straight upl, and nearly 3 percent of gay upl have foster children, pared wh 0.

OUR PARENTS ARE GAY. ARE OUR FAI GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE SUPREME COURT?

In December 2022, Rsia expand s existg “gay propaganda” law to exert ntrol over public discsns and narrativ surroundg non-heterosexual relatnships and inti. 12, 2015When Mississippi adopted a one-sentence law forbiddg adoptns by same-sex upl 2000, was not so surprisg: For s, gay men and lbians several stat had n to roadblocks when they sought to adopt or foster was a potent marker of how fast laws and attus on gay rights issu have changed on Wednday when civil rights lawyers filed su feral urt challengg the law. “The Mississippi Adoptn Ban wr equaly to Mississippi law by requirg that married gay and lbian upl and parents be treated differently than all other married upl Mississippi, unequivolly barrg them om adoptn whout regard to their circumstanc, ” the plat said.

To discrimate agast gay people simply bee they are gay. Kaplan filed a se last year challengg Mississippi’s ban on gay marriage, even as siar s om Texas and Louisiana were pendg the Uned Stat Court of Appeals for the Fifth Wter/The New York TimIn November, Judge Carlton W.

” But the cisn was stayed pendg actn by the Fifth Circu, and then the Supreme York began allowg gay and lbian upl’ send-parent adoptns 1996, one of the first stat to do so. It remend a formal apology and pensatn of up to £50m.“As today’s report mak clear, that perd many endured the most horrific sexual abe and vlence, homophobic bullyg and harassment, all while bravely servg this untry,” Sunak told MP.“Today, on behalf of the Brish state, I apologise. Many of those targeted had faced “somethg of a wch-hunt”, he said, cludg havg their nfinc broken, abe and beg forced to take tts wh no medil basis.Promisg the ernment would implement the “vast majory” of Etherton’s remendatns, Wallace said he would fully update the Commons a formal bate about the issue after the summer.Asked about pensatn, Wallace said he hoped to fd “an elegant solutn that match the need and the requirements of those dividuals”, promisg to set this out after recs.Dame Kelly Holm, who served the army and me out as gay last year, was among mpaigners who weled the apology.

RSIA'S PUT SIGNS LAW LIMG ADOPTN BY GAYS

“It means a huge amount to be here today and to hear and be part of this wh some other veterans that are all part of the review,” the Olympic athlete said.“From a personal pot of view, the ban affected me terms of who I was and what I uldn’t be for 34 years, leadg me to do my documentary last year.”Rpondg to Sunak at PMQs, Keir Starmer said he was proud that was a Labour ernment that had repealed the ban, and he weled the apology.Starmer said one of his nstuents, Ken Wright, a former RAF service member who was “forced to leave the job he loved simply bee he was gay”, was the public gallery to hear the apology.Etherton’s report said: “I remend that the prime mister should liver an apology the UK parliament on behalf of the natn to all those LGBT service personnel who served unr and suffered om the ban (whether or not they were dismissed or discharged).”It remend that an “appropriate fancial award” should be ma to veterans affected by the ban, wh a maximum total of £50m, and said the plan should not be affected by normal ligatn time lims. We are among the first generatn of children raised by two gay dads or two lbian moms. But the gay slurs, hostile glar, and bullyg paled parison wh the realizatn that our ernment did not stand behd and our fai—forbiddg marriage and curbg parental rights, passg state nstutnal amendments exprsly nyg our parents equal protectn, and even crimalizg their sexual relatnships.

Kreml statement said the measure is tend to guarantee children a%22harmon%22 upbrggLaw prohibs adoptn by same-sex foreign upl whose homeland regniz their unn as marriageEarlier this week%2C Put approved a ban on givg children any rmatn about gaysMOSCOW (AP) — Print Vladimir Put has signed a bill that sharply lims the adoptn of Rsian children by people om untri that allow same-sex new law prohibs adoptn by same-sex foreign upl whose homeland regniz their unn as marriage, as well as by sgle people or unmarried upl om those untri. "The bill signed Wednday is the latt move by Rsia to buck the Wtern trend toward greater acceptance of homosexualy.

FLORIDA COURT CALLS BAN ON GAY ADOPTNS UNLAWFUL

Rearch published this year found that more than 400, 000 people who are gay, transgenr or non-bary had been subjected to someone tryg to change, “cure” or supprs their sexual orientatn or genr a letter to Sunak seen by the Guardian, those phg for the ban to be enacted speedily said the ernment’s “moral failg” not yet publishg the legislatn “should ncern all”. 22, 2010 A 30-year-old Florida law that prohibs adoptn by gay men and lbians is unnstutnal, a state appeals urt led on Wednday, and the state’s ernor said the law would not be enforced pendg a cisn on whether to appeal.

COURT BACKS FLORIDA BAN ON ADOPTN BY GAYS

The cisn by Florida’s Third District Court of Appeal said that Florida’s adoptn law, which bans adoptn by gay men and lbians while allowg them to be foster parents, had “no ratnal basis” and th vlated the equal protectn clse the State Constutn. ” The se volved the efforts of Mart Gill, a gay man, to adopt two brothers he took more than five years ago as foster children when one was 4 years old and the other 4 months old. ” Evince prented at the trial by opponents of the ban found no difference the well-beg of children raised by gay parents vers heterosexual parents.

Judge Cope wrote that at the trial, the state prented only two expert wns, one of whom unrcut the state’s se by disagreeg wh the ia of a blanket ban on gay adoptn, statg stead that adoptns should be nsired se by se.

Rekers, who was paid $120, 000 for his work the se, has sce been enmhed a sndal after he was disvered to have taken a 10-day trip to Europe wh a young man who advertised sexual servic on a se for gay rts.

RSIA ENACTS ANTI-GAY ADOPTN BAN

Acrdg to the lower urt cisn ced the opn on Wednday, “Florida is the only remag state to exprsly ban all gay adoptns whout exceptn. ” That means, he said, that “some gays will be disqualified, and some heterosexuals will be disqualified, ” but that “nobody is gog to be tegorilly exclud bee of who they are. ”A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 18 of the New York edn wh the headle: Florida Court Calls Ban on Gay Adoptns Unlawful.

TENNSEE GOV. BILL LEE SIGNS BILL ALLOWG ADOPTN AGENCI TO NY GAY UPL

”The ban marks the latt phase a rollback of rights for gay and transgenr people Rsia. Florida’s ban on gay and lbian adoptn was led unnstutnal 2010, makg Florida the last state the U.

A Florida judge yterday upheld a state law banng gays om adoptg children, the first feral urt lg on the judge, Jam Lawrence Kg of Feral District Court, accepted the state's argument that the ban served a legimate purpose, bee was bt for children to be reared by a married mother and father.

''Platiffs have not asserted that they n monstrate that homosexual fai are equivalently stable, '' Judge Kg wrote, ''are able to provi proper genr intifitn or are no more socially stigmatizg than married heterosexual fai.

FLORIDA BAN ON GAY ADOPTN UNNSTUTNAL, URT L

''Florida beme the first state to forbid adoptn by gay men and lbians 1977, the midst of a mpaign agast homosexualy by the sger Ana Bryant. New Hampshire later adopted a siar ban, but was are siar provisns several other Arkansas, for example, gays, or those wh gays livg the hoehold, are barred om beg foster parents. Mississippi bars jot adoptns by gay upl, although dividual gay men and lbians are allowed to Florida, the lead platiff challengg the ban was Steven Lofton, a gay pediatric nurse who raised om fancy three foster children who at birth tted posive for H.

Lofton, who at one pot won the Children's Home Society's outstandg foster-parentg award, was disqualified bee he is gay. ''The lawyer reprentg the men, Matthew Col, the director of the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn's Lbian and Gay Rights Project, said he planned to ask the judge to rensir. ''It really isn't about whether we want to have married upl or gay people adoptg.