All posts tagged "adoption"
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Parental Guidance
The United Church of Christ (UCC), the denomination to which President Barack Obama belonged for two decades, resoundingly approved two resolutions on July 5 in...
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Post Poll: More Virginians Support Marriage Equality Than Oppose It
Big news in today’s poll out from The Washington Post: Virginians are pro-marriage equality. From the Post: Forty-seven percent of Virginians say gay couples should...
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Children Caught in the Middle
Each year, more than 100,000 children in the United States foster care system are waiting for adoptive homes, according to the U.S. Department of Health...
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In Virginia, a Governor’s Deadline and a Board Vote for Gay Couples Adoption Measure
On April 20-21, the Virginia State Board of Social Services will meet to consider “adopting new standards for licensed private child-placing agencies,” which would allow...
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Wonderful Wins
The fight for gay equality at home and on the battlefield won encouraging court victories last week. In a case brought by ACLU of Washington...
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Florida Court Finds for Adoption
Today, in a long-awaited decision, the Florida Court of Appeals for the Third District unanimously upheld the trial court's ruling that Florida's statutory ban and...
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McCollum’s (Self Inflicted, Anti-LGBT) Travails
Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum (R), running for governor, has had a rough year. Most of it is all of his own creation, but, seriously,...
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First Step for Families
On March 10, Rep. Pete Stark (D-Calif.), with nine Democratic co-sponsors, introduced the Every Child Deserves a Family Act to address anti-LGBT discrimination in adoption....
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Proud Parents
In some places around the country, gay and lesbian people are still banned from adopting children. Likely in those same areas -- and well beyond...
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Bad Counsel
A recent opinion by D.C.'s Office of the Attorney General on a pending domestic-partnership bill shows unfamiliarity with both our families and the law, and...
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Plea for Parents
It didn't take long for Ruth Landy, 40, and her partner of four years, Elizabeth Landy, 34, to realize that even talking about adoption costs...
