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UK Catholic charity must provide its adoption services to gay couples

Submitted by Jeff on Tue, 04/26/2011 - 4:10pm
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A UK Catholic charity which wants exemption from equality laws which would force it to provide its adoption services to gay couples has had its latest appeal rejected. Catholic Care, which is based in the Diocese of Leeds, has spent more than two years arguing it will have to give up its work finding homes for children if it has to comply with recent equality regulations which prohibit discrimination against same-sex couples wanting to adopt.


Arkansas court strikes down law barring adoptions by openly gay parents

Submitted by Jeff on Thu, 04/07/2011 - 1:57pm
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The Arkansas Supreme Court rejected a voter-approved initiative that barred gay couples and other unmarried people living together from serving as adoptive or foster parents. Associate Justice Robert L. Brown wrote for the court that the law would encroach on adults' right to privacy in the bedroom.

"Act 1 directly and substantially burdens the privacy rights of 'opposite-sex and same-sex individuals' who engage in private, consensual sexual conduct in the bedroom by foreclosing their eligibility to foster or adopt children," Brown wrote.


British charity says there's 'no room for prejudice' when finding homes for vulnerable children

Submitted by Community Editor on Tue, 02/01/2011 - 8:40am
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Barnardo's is a British charity founded in 1866, to care for vulnerable children and young people. Now it's chief executive Anne Marie Carrie said there is no room for prejudice as a survey showed one in three people think gay couples will make worse parents than those in heterosexual relationships.


Threat exists to reinstate Florida's ban on gay and lesbian adoption

Submitted by Jeff on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 6:23pm
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FROM SOUTH FLORIDA FAMILY PRIDE: "Even though the Governor says he has no plans to revive the ban on gay adoptions, his statement that adoptions should be by a "married couple” and his appointment of a DCF Secretary who wants to revive the ban requires a response from the people of Florida.


Florida gay dads and family invited to White House Holiday Party!

Submitted by Jeff on Thu, 12/16/2010 - 11:09am
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After five years of legal battles, Martin Gill and his partner recently won the right to adopt their two sons. Now the family has received a once-in-a-lifetime invitation to attend a holiday celebration at the White House.

"The Obama administration was very supportive of us and gay adoption," Gill said.

This will be the sixth year the couple and their sons will be together as a family, but the first year the state of Florida legally recognizes them as such.


UK doctor dismissed from adoption panel over religious views

Submitted by Jeff on Tue, 11/16/2010 - 10:56am
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Dr. Sheila Matthews (pictured) was dismissed from her role on an adoption panel over her religious-based belief that children should not be placed with same-sex couples, a tribunal has heard. Matthews sat on an adoption panel for Northamptonshire County Council.

She was removed from her job when she asked to abstain from voting in cases where gay couples were planning to adopt because of her religious beliefs.


Catholic adoption agency cannot bar gay parents from service

Submitted by Jeff on Thu, 08/19/2010 - 8:58am
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The UK-based agency called Catholic Care sought exclusion from 2007 sexual orientation regulations and began legal action to change its constitution - so it could work with married couples only. But it lost the attempt to restrict its service to heterosexual couples after the Charity Commission found there is no justification for barring lesbian and gay parents.


Mexico supreme court upholds adoptions by gay parents

Submitted by Jeff on Mon, 08/16/2010 - 4:27pm
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Mexico's Supreme Court voted to uphold a Mexico City law allowing adoptions by same-sex couples. The AP reports that justices voted 9-2 against challenges presented by federal prosecutors who had argued the law fails to protect adoptive children against possible ill effects or discrimination, or to guarantee their rights to a traditional family.


Research: Adoptive children of lesbian and gay couples developing well

Submitted by Jeff on Mon, 07/26/2010 - 12:36pm
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According to the results of a new University of Virginia study, adoptive children living in different parts of the US are developing well regardless of whether they are living with lesbian, gay or heterosexual parenting couples. The research finds that whether or not adoptive children develop in positive ways is unrelated to the sexual orientation of their adoptive parents.


Second parent adoption is a benefit in many states

Submitted by Community Editor on Sun, 05/16/2010 - 6:25am
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A second parent adoption is a legal procedure that allows a same-sex parent to adopt a partner’s biological or adoptive child without terminating the legal rights of the first parent. States must honor second-parent adoptions from other states.

Second-parent adoption is authorized in California by statute - and where appellate courts have ruled that the state adoption law permits second-parent adoption.

A statute is a law passed by a legislature. An appellate court is about appeals. It has the power to review the judgment of another lower court or tribunal.


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