Supreme Court Mulls Hearing Florida Gay Adoption Case

[davidinalameda]

http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/01/010505supremes.htm

Supreme Court justices will meet Friday to consider what cases they will hear in 2005. Among the appeals filed with the court is one involving Florida's blanket ban on gay adoption - the only state to have such a ban.

Lat year the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit declined to hear a challenge to the Florida law, allowing to stand a ruing by a three-judge panel of the Court that upheld the ban. (story) .

The American Civil Liberties Union brought the lawsuit on behalf of four gay men who would like to adopt in Florida but are prevented from doing so by the state law. The ban was passed in 1977 in response to Anita Bryant's infamous anti-gay campaign.