Judge rules against Florida's ban on gay adoptions

Judge rules against Florida's ban on gay adoptions

A Monroe Circuit Court judge has ruled Florida's 31-year-old gay adoption ban "unconstitutional" in an order that allows an openly gay Key West foster parent to adopt a teenage boy he has raised since 2001.

Declaring the adoption to be in the boy's "best interest," Circuit Judge David J. Audlin, Jr. said the Florida law forbidding gays and lesbians from adopting children is contrary to the state constitution because it singles out a group for punishment.

Note: I don't agree that it singles out a group for punishment. I think that it singles out a child for ridicule.