Experts clash on gays' bids to adopt children
Dueling social-science testimony marked a trial over a gay North Miami man's petition to adopt his two foster children.
The judge's ruling will determine whether a 4-year-old boy and his 8-year-old brother can be adopted by Frank Gill, the North Miami foster parent who has raised the boys for four years, and his partner. Lederman said she will decide on the adoption later this month.
Florida is the only state that bans all gay people from adopting. This fall, a Circuit Court judge in Key West declared Florida's ban unconstitutional, although the decision is ...
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As a gay father with a healthy, well adjusted straight son who was abandoned by his straight mother, I have a dog in this hunt. Good parents are generally good people regardless of sexual orientation, ethnicity or even religious background. The state's case, if portrayed by accurately by this article, seems very weak. Personal experience tells me there is only one decision for this judge to make.