Crist's change of heart could jeopardize efforts to end ban on gay adoptions

Dan82 · Sep 16, 2010

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/s...heart-could-jeopardize-efforts-to-918300.html

Gov. Charlie Crist's announcement that he is mulling whether to drop the state's appeal of a ruling that allowed a Miami Beach homosexual to adopt could capsize advocates' efforts to declare Florida's 33-year-old ban on adoption by gays unconstitutional.

Pulling the plug on the closely watched case of Martin Gill, who adopted two brothers he had raised as a foster parent, would mean that, at least for now, appellate courts would not rule on the constitutionality of the ban and leave gays in legal limbo.

"We'd still be left with the statute" that bans gay adoptions, said Miami Beach lawyer Alan Mishael, who has represented two homosexuals who successfully adopted. "We'd still be where we started - judging on a case-by-case basis."

At first blush Crist's flip-flop to support gay adoption might seem to thrill Gill. If the challenge was dropped, Gill could go home to his sons in peace and perhaps not worry that they could be torn away from him.

But that is not what Gill or the lawyers attacking the law - the last one in the nation expressly banning all homosexuals from adopting - want...

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Crist's change of heart could jeopardize efforts to end ban on gay adoptions

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