Exodus: Live Out Loud

Pro-Homosexual Study Authored by Lesbian

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By AFA Journal
February 9, 2005

(AgapePress) - Raising questions about a conflict of interests, a pro-family leader claims that the co-author of a 2002 study of the children of homosexual couples is not a researcher but a propagandist.

Joe Glover, president of the Family Policy Network in Virginia, said that he was puzzled by the work of University of Virginia professor Charlotte J. Patterson, who co-authored a study which claimed that the children of lesbian couples are as happy and well-adjusted as children living in traditional homes. In addition, the study recommended -- as steps toward "breaking down legal barriers to maintenance of parent-child relationships in families headed by gay and lesbian parents" -- repeal of all sodomy laws, legalization of same-sex "marriage" throughout the U.S., and legalization of adoption by same-sex couples as well as "second-parent adoptions" (adoption of the children of the other same-sex partner).

Experts Dispute Bush on Gay-Adoption Issue

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By BENEDICT CAREY
Published: January 29, 2005

Are children worse off being raised by gay or lesbian couples than by heterosexual parents?

Responding on Thursday to a question about gay adoption, President Bush suggested that they were.

"Studies have shown," Mr. Bush said in an interview with The New York Times, "that the ideal is where a child is raised in a married family with a man and a woman."

State Supreme Court won't hear same-sex adoption fight

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HOUSTON A Galveston woman whose daughter was adopted by her former lesbian partner has lost a court battle to regain sole custody.

The Texas Supreme Court declined to hear a request by Julie Ann Hobbs to dismiss a lawsuit filed in May by Janet Kathleen Van Stavern. That lawsuit seeks joint custody and standard visitation of the 6-year-old girl.

Supreme Court lets stand Fla. ban on homosexual adoption

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Published January 20, 2005

WASHINGTON (BP)--In a victory for pro-family groups, the U.S. Supreme Court refused Jan. 10 to hear a challenge to Florida's ban on homosexual adoption.

Without comment, the high court refused to review what experts consider the nation's toughest law against adoptions by homosexuals. While Florida, Mississippi and Utah all prohibit homosexual couples from adopting, Florida goes a step further by preventing homosexual singles from adopting.

SCOTUS Denies Review of Florida's Homosexual Adoption Ban

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By Allie Martin
January 11, 2005

(AgapePress) - The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to consider the constitutionality of Florida's law forbidding same-sex adoption. The court's refusal to review the case marks the end of a legal challenge seeking to have that law declared unconstitutional.

Mathew D. Staver is president and general counsel of Liberty Counsel, a nonprofit litigation, education and policy organization which filed an amicus brief supporting the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruling supporting Florida's law against homosexual adoption. The Liberty Counsel spokesman is calling the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the matter a major victory.

Justices Refuse to Consider Law Banning Gay Adoption

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By LINDA GREENHOUSE
Published: January 11, 2005

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 - The Supreme Court refused on Monday to hear a challenge to a Florida law that prohibits gay men and lesbians from adopting children.

Florida's is the only such statute in the country, and the prohibition is the only categorical adoption ban on the state's books. Florida evaluates adoption applications from all other would-be adoptive parents, including those who have failed at previous adoptions and those with a history of drug abuse or domestic violence, on a case-by-case basis.

Setback For Gay Adoption

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 10, 2005


The Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday by four men who challenged Florida's ban on adoption by gay couples, avoiding another contentious fight over gay rights.

Florida is the only state with a blanket law prohibiting homosexuals from adopting children, but the high court was told that other states could now feel free to copy the ban.

Supreme Court Declines to Hear Case on Adoption by Gay People

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By DAVID STOUT

Published: January 10, 2005

ASHINGTON, Jan. 10 -- The Supreme Court declined today to hear a challenge to Florida's ban on adoption by gay people, the only such state law in the country.

The justices refused without comment to consider an appeal by four Florida men who had argued that the 1977 law violated their rights to equal protection under the United States Constitution, and that it was irrational because it automatically excluded potential adoptive parents for abandoned children.

Gay Adoption Case May Evoke Supreme Court's 'Lawrence' Decision

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Tony Mauro
Legal Times
01-05-2005

Gay rights returns to the Supreme Court's agenda Friday, at the justices' first private conference of the new year.

The Florida gay adoption case, Lofton v. Secretary of the Florida Department of Children and Families, is one of dozens of cases the Court will discuss at its conference with an eye toward granting or denying review.

Gay Marriage Proponents Decry Claims

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By LISA LEFF, Associated Press Writer

    SAN FRANCISCO--Proponents of gay marriage told a judge that arguments over whether marriage is designed to foster procreation and whether gays make good parents are irrelevant to their case.

    Twelve couples are suing to get California to overturn its statutory ban on gay marriage, a response to legal claims of two Christian groups.

    In briefs filed Friday, the couples' lawyers pointed out to Superior Court Judge Richard Kramer that California's Legislature and Supreme Court have already settled the procreation-parenting question by allowing gays to have children through adoption or reproductive technology.