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Gay couple who always wanted to be dads now adopting their 7th child, a gay teen
Right from the start of their relationship, Eric Charles-Gallo and Louis Gallo of Kansas City, Missouri, knew they wanted to be dads.
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Gay adoption ban stricken from Florida laws after four decades
Republican Gov. Rick Scott signed a bill Thursday that removes the language from Florida’s statutes – though the ban hasn’t been enforced for the past five years.
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Michigan governor signs bill allowing adoption agencies to reject same-sex couples
Gov. Rick Snyder has signed a law letting private adoption agencies with state contracts decline to participate in referrals against their religious beliefs, despite criticism that it amounts to government-sanctioned discrimination against gay couples.
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Michigan lawmakers OK bill allowing adoption agencies to reject same-sex couples
Faith-based agencies with state contracts can refuse to participate in adoption referrals that violate their beliefs under legislation approved Wednesday by Michigan’s Republican Legislature, despite objections it would permit discrimination against gay couples.
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Divisive anti-gay marriage bill, anti-gay adoption measure scrapped in Texas Legislature
Texas lawmakers have stopped legislative efforts that sought to defy the U.S. Supreme Court if same-sex marriage is legalized this summer, and an anti-gay adoption measure has been abandoned.
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Texas House scraps bill protecting agencies that bar gay adoptions
The Texas state House has scrapped – at least for the time being – a measure that would have allowed some child welfare agencies to block gays and same-sex couples from adopting children through them.
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Gay couple, one of whom adopted the other, has adoption vacated now that they can marry
When Bill Novak and Norman MacArthur moved to the Philadelphia suburbs nearly 20 years ago, they were dismayed to learn that Pennsylvania would not recognize their domestic partnership from New York.
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Gillibrand to introduce legislation to prohibit anti-LGBT adoption bias
The Every Child Deserves a Family Act would prohibit any entity that receives federal funds from discriminating against adoptive or foster parents based on sexual orientation, gender identity or marital status.
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Obama calls for end to discriminatory parenting laws
When President Obama declared May National Foster Care Month, he used words never before included in a White House proclamation about adoption.
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Arizona governor directs state agency to allow same-sex couples to be adoptive, foster parents
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is instructing a state agency to allow all legally married couples, including same-sex couples, to jointly be adoptive and foster parents.