Florida Won’t Fight End of Ban on Gay and Lesbian Adoptions

But they would if they thought they would win.

A recent court rul­ing by the state’s 3^rd Dis­trict Court of Appeal over­turned the State of Florida’s 33-year-old law ban­ning adop­tions by gay men and les­bians. Florida is the last remain­ing state to have such a prohibition.

Today, the state’s Attor­ney Gen­eral, Bill McCol­lum announced that he would not pur­sue an appeal of the deci­sion to the state’s Supreme Court. Mr. McCol­lum did not say that he accepted the deci­sion; he said that this was not the “right case” to take for­ward on appeal.

Ear­lier this month, the Depart­ment of Chil­dren and Fam­i­lies’ com­mu­ni­ca­tions direc­tor announced “We had weighed an appeal to the Florida Supreme Court to achieve an ulti­mate cer­tainty and final­ity for all par­ties, - But the depth, clar­ity and una­nim­ity of the DCA opin­ion — and that of Miami-Dade Judge Cindy Lederman’s orig­i­nal cir­cuit court deci­sion — has made it evi­dent that an appeal would have a less than lim­ited chance of a dif­fer­ent outcome.”

The courts have over­turned a law that had no busi­ness being on the books. The courts have made Florida behave like the rest of the coun­try. The courts have acted in the inter­est of the count­less par­ent­less chil­dren who have been denied a lov­ing fam­ily by the state of Florida’s archaic law. Yet we fully expect to hear a strong cho­rus of cries about activist judges from the right wing of Florida politics.

Since the peo­ple and law­mak­ers of the state of Florida have not proven they are will­ing to do what is right, thank good­ness we have moral, activist judges.

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