{"id":3113,"date":"2009-04-01T14:56:44","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T14:56:44","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-04-01T14:56:44","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T14:56:44","slug":"michigan-ruling-protects-kids-adopted-by-gays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2009\/04\/michigan-ruling-protects-kids-adopted-by-gays\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan ruling protects kids adopted by gays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Detroit News<\/strong> reports on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.detnews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20090401\/OPINION03\/904010307\/Michigan+ruling+protects+kids+adopted+by+gays\" target=\"_blank\">a landmark Michigan appeals court ruling that not only protects all the children of the state&#8217;s gay parents<\/a> but also stands as an important legal guidepost for courts elsewhere.  The appeals court affirmed that the U.S. Constitution&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/caselaw.lp.findlaw.com\/data\/constitution\/article04\/\" target=\"_blank\">Full Faith and Credit Clause<\/a> requires that states respect each other&#8217;s adoption decrees.<\/p>\n<p>With the constitutions of 29 states banning either gay marriage or any type of legal recognition for same-sex couples, the Michigan court drew an important line: Such a ban targets relationships between adults. But adoption remains a relationship between an adult and a child, and states must honor adoption decrees.  In late December, <a href=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/uncategorized\/lambda-legal-defends-lesbian-mother-in-ohio-custody-matter\/\">the Ohio Supreme Court rejected a lesbian&#8217;s argument that Ohio&#8217;s anti-gay amendment invalidated a court-approved custody agreement<\/a> she had signed with her partner before their breakup.<\/p>\n<p>And in 2007, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit struck down Oklahoma&#8217;s &#8220;Adoption Invalidation Law,&#8221; which refused to recognize out-of-state adoptions by &#8220;more than one individual of the same sex.&#8221;  Oklahoma also was ordered to give a child who had been born there a birth certificate listing both of her California adoptive mothers as her parents.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit News reporter Deb Price writes, &#8220;Regardless of whether states are ready to respect gay couples, they have a responsibility to protect adopted children. 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