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By Rusty Pugh
November 15, 2004
(AgapePress) - A Christian lawyer who feels it is just common sense to prohibit same-sex couples from adopting children is defending against a challenge to an Oklahoma law dealing with that very issue. An attorney with the Alliance Defense Fund has filed a motion to intervene in federal court on behalf of an Oklahoma lawmaker and a pro-family group. ADF's clients in this case are seeking to defend an Oklahoma law that does not allow same-sex couples to adopt. Three same-sex couples have filed suit contesting the state law. However, ADF-member Brent Olsson of the Oklahoma City law firm Huckaby, Fleming, Greenwood and Olsson, believes the State has the best interests of the children in mind. "I think the bulk of sociological science will indicate that children are best raised where you have a father figure and a mother figure," he says, "and that is the common sense of Oklahoma's approach."