Florida's Gay Adoption Ban Under Fire
Florida's strict ban on adoptions by gay people is going before a state appeals court.
The state is appealing a Miami-Dade County judge's November 2008 ruling that the law is unconstitutional. The ruling came in the case of Martin Gill, who along with his partner has adopted two young boys. The appeals court is hearing arguments Wednesday in Miami.
State attorneys say the judge essentially legislated from the bench and that state lawmakers should decide the matter. Attorneys for Gill and the two boys say the judge was expected to review the facts in detail before making her decision.
The American Civil Liberties Union, which is representing Gill, calls Florida's gay adoption ban the broadest such law in the nation.
AP The state is appealing a Miami-Dade County judge's November 2008 ruling that the law is unconstitutional. The ruling came in the case of Martin Gill, who along with his partner has adopted two young boys. The appeals court is hearing arguments Wednesday in Miami.
State attorneys say the judge essentially legislated from the bench and that state lawmakers should decide the matter. Attorneys for Gill and the two boys say the judge was expected to review the facts in detail before making her decision.
The American Civil Liberties Union, which is representing Gill, calls Florida's gay adoption ban the broadest such law in the nation.
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Leviticus 18:22 "Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable"
Romans 1:26-27 "Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and recieved in themselves the due penalty for their perversion"
1 Timothy 1:10 "The sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine"
But most importantly ---- 2 Thessalonians 3:14 "If anyone does not obey our instruction in this letter, take special note of him. Do not associate with him, in order that he may feel ashamed. Yet do not regard him as an enemy, but warn him as a brother"
I want to make note of these as solid examples of the scriptures stance against living life in lust, living life being led by the brain inbetween our legs. The push for gay rights for our country's future is a faulted pursuit that I feel if we continue to seek, will confuse our kids even more. I hope all of you remember how confusing being a kid already was. And weren't we always taught and continue to teach that making decisions thinking with our genitals (lol erections) is the worst way to make a decision? With that thought, i connect the entire gay movement to this idea, because it is a political push entirely based on sex....really? Politically (and morally) we are so confused now that we can't sit back and say that an entire legislation movement stemming from in between our legs is the wrong place to begin a sensible conversation? Come on America. And lastly, as an African-American male, it really burns me to hear people connecting the gay movement to that of civil rights. The civil rights movement was one of black people fighting to be able to remove themselves from poverty and starvation? (Which still hasnt entirely came lol) But I'm insulted that the necessaty for food, financial potential, being able to stay alive that blacks battled for which are needs, are compared to a movement that is based on sex, a want.
NOW,be off with YOU.
They forget (or wish to obscure) that being g.ay isn't about s.ex. It isn't about labels or religion or politics or laws. It's about who you are capable of loving, body and soul, and being loved by in return. It defines a culture that has existed as long as mankind itself has existed.
Some people really hate g.ay and lesbian people. I can't say for sure why. Is it because we're not 100% like them? Is it because we may not share their religion? Is it because they don't personally share the same feelings? I don't know. But it is because of that hatred, exemplified in posts here, a g.ay man or woman might get shot, robbed, beaten or staked out on a fence in Wyoming and left to die. That's what it means to hate.
Most g.ay and lesbian people have the courage to stand up to that hate, and we do. Some give into it, and begin to hate themselves. All I know is that I know who I love, and why, and there isn't enough hatred, bigotry, rhetoric or ignorance in all the world to change that.
As time passes, civil rights are being recognized for g.ay and lesbian people, and many of the old bigotries tend to fade. But there will always be a few, like some who post here, that will seek to destroy instead of understand.
Why not adopt a dog or a cat? So much cheaper and they won?t curse you out.
Pedophiles would love to adopt them, too. And I'm sure they would show them Love as well.
Any US History Professor will remind you that it was The Treaty of Paris, which officially ended the American Revolution.
It is The Treaty of Paris, which was signed on September 3, 1782, and ratified on April 17, 1783, that stands as the LONE DOCUMENT which officially recognized American independence.
Signed by Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and John Jay? (AKA The "Founding Fathers")
IT READS:
"In the name of the most holy and undivided Trinity.
It having pleased the Divine Providence to dispose the hearts of the most serene and most potent Prince George the Third, by the grace of God, king of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, duke of Brunswick and Lunebourg, arch-treasurer and prince elector of the Holy Roman Empire etc., and of the United States of America, to forget all past misunderstandings and differences that have unhappily interrupted the good correspondence and friendship which they mutually wish to restore . . . "
Holy Trinity?
Divine Providence?
Grace of God?
Tell me again that the United States of America is NOT a Christian Nation?
The country was established on Christian school administrators?