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Gay Adoption Case Wins in Florida

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Fight in Gay Adoption Case was 'whirlwind,' Florida Man Says

By Ashley Fantz, CNN
September 23, 2010

(CNN) -- A few days before Christmas in 2004, Martin Gill got a call from a social worker with the Florida Department of Children & Families.

Could he and his partner take in a baby and his 4-year-old brother? The children had nowhere to go, Gill was told. The state had removed the boys from their mother's custody due to neglect. She already had 10 children and another baby on the way, the social worker said. The boys had different fathers; neither was around.

"We knew we wanted to keep being foster parents," Gill said. "When we got the offer to take the boys, we said yes. Within hours of that call, I had these kids at my doorstep. It happened that quickly."

Gill had been a foster parent to seven children before that day, he said, and each had been adopted away by other families. He didn't want to say goodbye again.

The ACLU, on Gill's behalf, filed suit to have Florida's 33-year-old law prohibiting gay adoption struck down. Gill was victorious Wednesday when the state's Third District Court of Appeals issued a ruling that said allowing gay men and women to be foster parents, but not adopt, did not have "rational basis" and violated the equal protection clause in the state constitution.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/09/23/fl ... index.html
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