{"id":918,"date":"2008-07-02T13:11:20","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T13:11:20","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-07-02T13:11:20","modified_gmt":"2008-07-02T13:11:20","slug":"new-york-gay-couple-sues-arizona-adoption-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2008\/07\/new-york-gay-couple-sues-arizona-adoption-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"New York gay couple sues Arizona adoption companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lambdalegal.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lambda Legal<\/a> is filing a discrimination complaint with the New York Attorney General\u2019s office on behalf of a gay couple in New York barred from posting their online adoptive parent profile by Arizona-based Adoption Profiles, LLC and Adoption Media, LLC solely because they are a same-sex couple &#8211; violating New York antidiscrimination laws. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese companies already pulled out of doing business in California after being sued for discrimination there,\u201d said Flor Bermudez, Staff Attorney at Lambda Legal.  \u201cThey can&#8217;t come into New York and effectively hang a sign on their door saying \u2018Gay couples need not apply.\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to Lambda, 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. The couple wanted to use the services of these companies to post their profile on ParentProfiles.com and seek a match with a birth parent. However, the website\u2019s eligibility requirements only allow a \u201cQualifying Husband and Wife Couple\u201d to use the service, thus discriminating against same-sex couples on the basis of sexual orientation, sex and marital status.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/uncategorized\/adoption-com-sued-for-discrimination-a-california-couple-blocked-from-the-web-site-because-of-their-sexual-orientation\/\">The company was sued in California<\/a> for violating that state\u2019s antidiscrimination law and is no longer doing business there.   <\/p>\n<p> \u201cWe are committed partners who can provide a loving home for a child,\u201d said Rosario Gennaro. \u201cBirth parents should have the opportunity to review our profile and see what a good home we have to offer a child.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><cite>Article adapted by ProudParenting.com from original press release<\/cite><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lambda Legal is filing a discrimination complaint with the New York Attorney General\u2019s office on behalf of a gay couple<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[15],"tags":[234,235,582,282],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - 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