{"id":11566,"date":"2015-06-13T12:37:35","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T12:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/?p=11566"},"modified":"2015-06-13T12:44:41","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T12:44:41","slug":"florida-adoption-ban-stricken-from-laws-after-four-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2015\/06\/florida-adoption-ban-stricken-from-laws-after-four-decades\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida adoption ban stricken from laws after four decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(function(d, s, id) {   var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];   if (d.getElementById(id)) return;   js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;   js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\";   fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/FirstCommunion.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/FirstCommunion.jpg\" alt=\"FirstCommunion\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/FirstCommunion.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/FirstCommunion-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nA nearly four-decade-old law banning gays from adopting children, which hasn\u2019t been enforced in five years, will come off Florida\u2019s books July 1, but Gov. Rick Scott still wants private, religious-based adoption agencies to be able to turn gay couples away.<\/p>\n<p>Scott signed a bill Thursday that removes the adoption ban enacted in the days when entertainer Anita Bryant crusaded against gays. It is part of a larger bill that promotes adoption, and striking the language simply reflects reality after a judge found the ban unconstitutional five years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is incredibly personal for me because I was just a young man when Anita Bryant was pursuing her actions against the gay community,\u201d said Rep. David Richardson, Florida\u2019s first openly gay lawmaker and the Miami Beach Democrat who amended the adoption bill to remove the gay ban. \u201cIt was very disturbing to me to watch it and to see how much hate was being promoted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But now he&#8217;s celebrating!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho would have guessed I would be the one here to repeal a law that so personally affected me?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lgbtqnation.com\/2015\/06\/gay-adoption-ban-stricken-from-florida-laws-after-four-decades\/\" target=\"_blank\">LGBTQNation<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-comments\" data-href=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/?p=11566\" data-num-posts=\"10\" data-width=\"500\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nearly four-decade-old law banning gays from adopting children, which hasn\u2019t been enforced in five years, will come off Florida\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45999,"featured_media":11571,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,195],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - 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