All posts tagged "adoption"
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Advocates file complaint against Kentucky judge refusing adoptions to LGBTQ parents
A coalition of LGBTQ advocates has filed a complaint accusing Kentucky Judge W. Mitchell Nance of violating Kentucky’s Code of Judicial Conduct by recusing himself from...
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4 lesbian couples sue over Tennessee’s “LGBT Erasure Bill”
Four lesbian couples in Tennessee are suing over a law that critics say is an attempt to avoid recognizing the legal relationships between LGBTQ parents...
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Texas House passes anti-LGBTQ adoption bill
Texas would become the sixth state to allow child placement agencies to turn away same-sex parents
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Kentucky judge refuses to hear adoption cases involving LGBTQ parents
A family court judge in Kentucky has announced he will no longer hear adoption cases involving “homosexual parties” because he believes “as a matter of conscience”...
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Nebraska Supreme Court throws out ban on same-sex foster parents
State ordered to stop treating same-sex couples differently in foster and adoption cases
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South Dakota considering “religious freedom” adoption bill
South Dakota lawmakers are weighing a proposed bill that would allow agents of adoption and foster care agencies to reject qualified parents based on personal...
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Judge: Indiana must list lesbian mothers on child’s birth certificate
A federal judge has ruled that the state of Indiana must list both spouses in lesbian marriages as parents on their children’s birth certificates. U.S. District...
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SCOTUS reverses Alabama’s refusal to recognize same-sex adoption
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday reversed an Alabama Supreme Court decision refusing to recognize a lesbian mother’s legal adoption of her three children in...
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ACLU warns of coming wave of “religious exemption” bills
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is warning that social conservatives and anti-LGBT advocates could be intending to push laws and policies that would legalize discrimination...
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Utah judge removes foster child from lesbian couple’s care
Couple was planning to adopt the girl, and even had the support of the child's biological mother
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Dolce & Gabbana apologize for IVF and adoption comments
Is a very late apology better than none at all? That appears to be the question when it comes to how the LGBT community will...
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Mississippi adoption ban challenged in federal court
Plaintiffs seek to strike down last remaining state ban on same-sex couples adopting children
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Florida governor signs bill repealing gay adoption ban
Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) signed into law on Thursday a bill that repeals the Sunshine State’s nearly four decade-long law prohibiting same-sex couples from...
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Michigan Gov. Snyder signs bills allowing adoption agencies to discriminate
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) on Thursday signed a package of three bills that will allow adoption or child placement agencies to refuse to serve...
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Jennifer Fairfax: Putting Family First
Jennifer Fairfax has had significant exposure to issues surrounding family law. Whether it was becoming godmother at 18 to a girl that a friend had...
