Anti-Gay adoption service ends business in New York State

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(New York City) New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday that Arizona-based internet companies Adoption Profiles and Adoption Media have stopped doing business in New York.

The Attorney General’s announcement follows a complaint filed last year by Lambda Legal on behalf of a New York gay couple who were barred from posting their on-line adoptive-parent profile solely because they are a same-sex couple. The complaint said that the companies were violating New York laws prohibiting such discrimination.

In a statement, Cuomo’s office said the companies “have ceased doing business in New York effective immediately as a result of the Attorney General’s investigation into the companies’ discriminatory policies, procedures and practices.”

“New York Attorney General Cuomo has sent a clear message to all businesses that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation will not be tolerated,” said Flor Bermudez, Staff Attorney at Lambda Legal.

“Companies can’t come into New York and hang a sign on their door saying ‘Same-sex couples need not apply.’”

Rosario Gennaro and Alexander Gardner knew for a long time that they wanted to have children and that adoption was the way to make it possible.

The couple had a home study by a licensed social worker and obtained Certification as Qualified Adoptive Parents from the New York City Surrogate Court.

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