A slew of bills are rollg back recently won eedoms for gay people. Is Ameri ready to fight for LGBTQ+ rights all over aga?
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
* ban on gay adoption *
”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:. Breakg News: Republins vote to make legal natnwi to ban gays & lbians om adoptg.
DID REPUBLINS VOTE TO MAKE IT LEGAL TO BAN GAYS AND 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.
HOW MANY STAT STILL PROHIB ADOPTN BY GAY PARENTS AND WHAT N WE DO ABOUT ?
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.
AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
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. 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.
MANY STAT STILL PROHIB GAY ADOPTN
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.
FLORIDA COURT CALLS BAN ON GAY ADOPTNS UNLAWFUL
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.
Supporters of Florida’s ‘don’t say gay’ bill gather outsi Walt Disney World this month.