Gay Couple to Challenge Florida's Adoption Ban
By the DiversityInc staff
October 02, 2008
Keywords: gay, lesbian, adoption, foster parents, same-sex marriage, gay marriage, ACLU, Florida, LGBT
Frank Martin Gill and his partner took in two abused boys in 2004 and have cared for them as foster parents ever since. But Florida, the state in which they live, does not want to allow Gill to adopt the two boys because he is in a gay relationship, The Miami Herald reports.
Gill took the two half-brothers into his North Miami home in 2004 when a child-abuse investigator asked for his help. "What is at stake in this trial are two little boys getting to know that they get to stay at the only home they've ever known," said Robert F. Rosenwald Jr., Gill's ACLU attorney.
In Florida, gay people can be foster parents but cannot adopt. Gill will take his case to court on Wednesday. Opposing Gill are the Florida Department of Children & Families (DCF) and the state attorney general. '[DCF] is obliged by statute to oppose the adoption' when the potential adoptive parent discloses that he or she is gay, DCF special counsel Neil Skene told The Miami Herald.
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