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Contents:

• ADOPTN AGENCY SHOULD BE ABLE TO REJECT GAY UPL, TMP ADMISTRATN ARGU
• DID REPUBLINS VOTE TO MAKE IT LEGAL TO BAN GAYS AND LBIANS OM ADOPTG?
• HOW MANY STAT STILL PROHIB ADOPTN BY GAY PARENTS AND WHAT N WE DO ABOUT ?
• AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
• MANY STAT STILL PROHIB GAY ADOPTN
• FLORIDA COURT CALLS BAN ON GAY ADOPTNS UNLAWFUL

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. Congrs had voted to make legal to ban gay and lbian fai om adoptg:.

DID REPUBLINS VOTE TO MAKE IT LEGAL TO BAN GAYS AND LBIANS OM ADOPTG?

Breakg News: Republins vote to make legal natnwi to ban gays & lbians om adoptg.

The vote on gay adoptn (which also turned on the issue of relig objectns to same-sex relatnships) did, fact, take place durg nsiratn of a fundg bill for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Servic, and Edutn by the Hoe Appropriatns Commtee on 11 July 2018. Supreme Court Backs Christian Baker Who Rebuffed Gay Couple. "Republins Vote to Make It Legal Natnwi to Ban Gays & Lbians om Adoptg.

A lot has changed the more than 40 years sce the first gay uple adopted a baby California 1979. Perhaps not surprisgly, more and more gay upl, specifilly, started adoptg: Same-sex upl are four tim more likely to adopt a child and six tim more likely to foster a child when pared to heterosexual upl. Wh more than 100, 00 children wag to be adopted this untry alone, allowg gay upl to adopt ensur more kids fd their forever hom.

HOW MANY STAT STILL PROHIB ADOPTN BY GAY PARENTS AND WHAT N WE DO ABOUT ?

In 2019, the Atlantic ran an opn piece tled “The stggle for gay rights is over”. The mise of the homophobic Defense of Marriage Act 2013 was followed by the end of the feral ban on marriage equaly 2015. Wispread acceptance of same-sex marriage rights, gay people servg the ary and the need for protectns for LGBTQ+ people followed.

As recently as 2020, the urt, then wh two Tmp appote, led that the 1964 Civil Rights Act protected gay, lbian and transgenr workers. In 1985, 89% of parents said they would be sad if they disvered their child was gay or a lbian. A rash of laws ncerng the teachg of human sexualy school curricula, banng trans stunt athlet and strippg parents of the right to help their genr-variant children obta appropriate re have popped up numero red stat this same-sex marriage is now part of the fabric of Ameri, nservativ have chosen to explo Amerins’ unfaiary wh trans people and piggyback on parental anger over the perceived overreach of Covid-era school closur, nflatg wh an sid sense of “wokens”, the hop of fdg an electorally viable sluiceway for anti-LGBTQ+ most famo of the anti-LGBTQ+ laws is the piece of Florida legislatn banng stctn on sexual orientatn or genr inty schools between krgarten and third gra, the so-lled “don’t say gay” law.

AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?

Supporters of Florida’s ‘don’t say gay’ bill gather outsi Walt Disney World this month.

The ernor and his supporters have labeled as a “groomer” anyone who believ children n learn LGBTQ+ people exist, argug that simply by talkg about gay relatnships to a child, you are sexualizg that child.

MANY STAT STILL PROHIB GAY ADOPTN

”To be gay, their view, is to be herently sexualized, a threat to nocence a way that straight Amerins are vehemence has ught even veteran LGBTQ+ advot by surprise. He was followed by Arizona’s ernor, Doug Ducey, who, after barrg mors om genr-affirmatn treatment, wouldn’t even state for the rerd that trans people were Florida lawmaker Michele Rayner-Goolsby, left, hugs her wife, Bian Goolsby, durg a march at cy hall St Petersburg agast the ‘don’t say gay’ bill.

Photograph: Bob Daemmrich/Zuma Wire/Rex/ShutterstockPolicians are supported the media by mentators like Tucker Carlson, who claimed “no one had heard of this trans thg four years ago”, or Charlie Kirk, channelg 1980s fears sayg “gays want to rpt your children” rejuvenated, the right wg is poised to make transphobia and homophobia rnerston of the midterms and 2024 electns, wh promis to liver “don’t say gay” legislatn stat cludg Michigan and New Perks, the print of the Fay Rearch Council, a nservative lobbyg group, veighed agast the ernors of Indiana and Utah for vetog legislatn banng trans women om participatg sports, llg the bills “timely, mastream protectns”. The Republin US reprentative Marjorie Taylor Greene vowed to troduce a feral “don’t say gay” bill if Republins w the Hoe this November, only to one-up herself days later by tweetg that for people to be pro-trans is to be pro-pedophilia.

FLORIDA COURT CALLS BAN ON GAY ADOPTNS UNLAWFUL

”The bs-iendly wg of the GOP that would quietly team up wh Democrats to scuttle rabidly homophobic bills is now outnumbered, and legislators a dozen or more stat that lean even farther to the right than DeSantis are takg, the Natnal Center for Lbian Rights legal director, believ Florida is the tt se for a renewed ph for an aggrsive, Christian-natnalist program. ”The “don’t say gay” bill, Mter not, is very siar to what’s been passed Rsia, tetherg Amerin nservativ to their thorarian unterparts who have succsfully rolled back mocratic norms across eastern Europe.

“I’ve seen this movie before over the last 30 years: The right wg cid to target the LGBTQ muny, whether ’s around marriage or adoptn or trans kids playg sports or bathrooms, ” says the California state senator Stt Wiener, who is gay. “I thought was really important to ph back on the policy level, and to send a clear signal that California and other stat really re about the kids, ” he believ that “don’t say gay” is “patently unnstutnal” but also ntends that relyg on the judicial system to protect human rights may no longer be a sound optn. In the 1970s and 1980s, foster re agenci placed children the hom of gay and lbian upl — spe popular opposn and legal mandat to the ntrary — bee they believed dog so was the bt terts of the children.