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Some progress has been made in the name of Gay Rights (aka basic human rights), and in an odd place strangely enough.  A judge in Florida ruled that the 31-year-old Florida state law forbidding homosexuals from adopting children is unconstitutional.  This is an unexpected ray of hope for the gay community, especially since Florida was one of the states to pass laws outlawing gay marriage in the November elections.  Of course, the state will try to fight this, just as they did earlier this year when the state brought in “experts” (a relative term), “who claimed there was a higher incidence of drug and alcohol abuse among gay couples, that they were more unstable than heterosexual unions and that the children of gay couples suffer a societal stigma,” even though the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Medical Association and American Psychiatric Association, amongst other groups, all support homosexual adoption.  Why is there such fear of the homosexual in this country?  My answer: too many people grew up in the John Wayne 1950s.    

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081125/ap_on_re_us/gay_adoptions

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