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According to Social Work Today, Latino gay and lesbian couples adopt more children than other same-sex couples.

The online resource for social workers reports on a study conducted by Alliant University and highlights interesting facts about same-sex couples in Florida.

Among the research results:

Republican Mayor Jerry Sanders cited his daughter as the main reason for reversing an earlier decision about a significant step for lesbians and gay men. Then he signed a City Council resolution supporting a challenge to California's gay marriage ban.

“I've decided to lead with my heart, which is probably obvious right now, to do what I think is right and to take a stand on behalf of equality and social justice,” Sanders explained with surging emotion, while taking his new position during a press conference Wednesday.

Supporters of gay families should be pleased with recent developments in our fight for equality. New Hampshire recently approved civil unions and Massachusetts lawmakers blocked a proposed ballot measure to ban gay marriage. In New York, the State Assembly passed a marriage equality bill that was introduced by Gov. Eliot Spitzer. The bill still has to pass the state Senate.

Same-sex marriage will continue to be legal in Massachusetts. Fair-minded lawmakers eventually defeated conservatives over a proposed constitutional amendment to define marriage as between a man and a woman in the commonwealth.