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Surya Gayatri

(15,445 posts)
Tue Apr 14, 2015, 04:20 PM Apr 2015

Gay-rights advocates 'hijacked' state adoption bill' say Florida Republicans

The Florida senate sent Governor Rick Scott a bill Tuesday repealing the state’s 1977 ban on adoptions by gay parents that was struck down by an appeals court in 2010.

The ban, which was imposed at the height of a campaign by singer Anita Bryant that revoked a gay-rights ordinance in Miami, has been unenforceable since the court ruled against it. However, the language remained in the statute and some legislators objected to removing it.

The Republican-controlled legislature included the repeal language in a large package providing financial incentives for state employees adopting children.

Senate judiciary committee chairman Tom Lee, also a Republican, said the adoption bill was “hijacked” by gay-rights supporters. He added repealing the ban should have been handled in separate legislation.



Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/14/florida-republicans-gay-adoption-bill

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BooooHoooo! Republicans hoist on their own petard once again.



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Backlash against Anita in the North back then HockeyMom Apr 2015 #1
Boo to the hoo gratuitous Apr 2015 #2
 

HockeyMom

(14,337 posts)
1. Backlash against Anita in the North back then
Tue Apr 14, 2015, 05:30 PM
Apr 2015

Buy CALIFORNIA oranges and make your own OJ. Remember that. Yeah, boycott Florida OJ in those days too.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
2. Boo to the hoo
Tue Apr 14, 2015, 05:43 PM
Apr 2015

Repealing an unconstitutional, unenforceable law should have been done five years ago at the absolute latest, you whiny-ass titty babies. You've had your chance to write separate legislation, repeatedly, and fumbled it away for years. It's time Florida got with the program and started guaranteeing the rights of all its citizens.

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