Florida adoption ban to bin

A Miami-Dade county judge has declared Florida’s state-ban on same-sex adoption as unconstitutional, allowing a North-Miami man to adopt the two children he has raised for the last four years.

Judge Cindy Lederman has allowed Frank Gill, a 47 year old man, to adopt the eight- and four-year-old children that he has raised with his partners since Christmas of 2004.

The children have been under foster care by them, but it has been impossible to return them to their biological parents.

Thriving

“We try to take care of kids, to find them permanent families so that they may have any other child’s opportunities to know and feel and go on to a productive life”, the judge said. “We pray for their thriving, but this is seldom the case”, the judge said. “It is clear these children are thriving: it is undisputable”, she added.

Florida’s district attorney Bill McCollum, however, has moved to appeal the decision. Arguments against gay adoption are their alleged unsuitability to raise children due to, among other things “increased likelihood of mental disorders”.

Frank Gill, however, is ecstatic about being the legal parent of his children. “I have shed tears of joy for the first time in my life”, he said.

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