miami court case

Florida Statute 63.042 states, “No person eligible to adopt under this statute may adopt if that person is a homosexual.”

Florida is the only state that outright prohibits gays and lesbians from adopting children. Some states do not allow gays to adopt children but at least try to hide it behind laws that prohibit unmarried couples from adopting. Florida just outright bans it! For some strange reason, the state believes that gays are capable of being wonderful loving foster parents but when it comes down to permanency they just don’t cut it.
Those who oppose and support gay adoption are currently awaiting a decision in the Miami court case that may provide ammunition to overturn the state law. In a Sun-Sentinel article titled, “Miami Court Decision May Affect a Law Barring Gays from Adopting,” Robert Lamarche, a gay man who lives in Boca Raton, Florida stated, “It’s crazy. I am holding a paper from the court that gives me and my partner guardianship that tells me that we are qualified to raise a child, but can’t adopt a child. That is ridiculous. But it’s the law.” Lamarche is far from the only one that feels the same way.

There are certain people that are extremely opposed to the idea of gays being able to adopt. Reverend O’Neil Dozier of the Worldwide Christian Center in Pompano Beach, believes that there is too much risk that in letting gays adopt the children will become gay as well because they are exposed to it. It's interesting that many people have the same view as Reverend O’Neil Dozier but they believe that children won’t be influenced by these same people as long as they are titled “foster parents” instead of simply “parents”.
Does the method or influence that is brought unto the children change with the title given to their guardians? It’s rather interesting when you look at it like that!