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Former Miss. governor says he was wrong to ban adoption by gay couples
JACKSON, Miss. — Former Mississippi Gov. Ronnie Musgrove says he now regrets signing a state law in 2000 that bans same-sex couples from adopting children.
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Nation’s most influential pediatricians group supports marriage equality
CHICAGO — The nation’s most influential pediatrician’s group has endorsed same-sex marriage, saying a stable relationship between parents regardless of sexual orientation contributes to a child’s health and well-being.
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Puerto Rico government signals support for overturning ban on gay adoptions
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Puerto Rico’s government is supporting an effort to overturn a ban on gay adoption in the U.S. island territory.
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Why was Rob Portman’s stroke of empathy so shocking?
A prominent Senator announcing that he has broken with his party to take a position of basic decency and empathy should not be so unusual that it becomes front page news. But that is exactly what happened when Ohio Sen. Rob Portman announced that, inspired by his gay son coming out two years ago, he now supports marriage equality…
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A gay dad, Republican fathers and four big questions for Rob Portman
I relate to the Portman family on many levels. Like Will Portman, I am also the son of a staunch Republican dad to whom I came out. My dad is older than Rob Portman. He adheres very much to the viewpoints of Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh and Fox News. Rob Portman presumably knows all those people personally. Like the Portmans, we too had our political theory versus family integrity moment…
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Dutch lesbian couple raising Turkish foster son go into hiding
AMSTERDAM — A Dutch lesbian couple have gone into hiding with their foster son after the boy’s biological parents said on television in Turkey that they object to the pair taking care of their child.
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Diverse U.S. Supreme Court justices, families mirror country
The varied family portraits of the U.S. Supreme Court justices are somewhat at odds with the arguments of gay marriage opponents who stress the unique ability of heterosexual couples to have babies as a reason to uphold bans on same-sex marriage.
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Report: Flawed parenting study was to influence Supreme Court decision on gay marriage
The backers of a flawed, but widely cited academic study critical of gay relationships and their impact on children of gay parents, choreographed its release in time to influence “major decisions of the Supreme Court,” according to documents obtained by The American Independent.
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Family Research Council clearly lying about scientific evidence, gay parenting
Do me a favor, folks. Don’t shake your head, suck your teeth and go “there they go again” at yet another time you have seen the Family Research Council blatantly lie about the gay community. Demand that more time and knowledge be invested in uncovering how organizations like FRC distort science or push blatant lies against the lgbt community. Organizations like the Family Research Council don’t rely on truth. They rely on repetition. They repeat a point while deliberately ignoring the simple fact that the point has been refuted by those who know better.
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Puerto Rico court ruling on gay adoptions appealed
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A lesbian whose adoption request was recently denied by Puerto Rico’s Supreme Court is appealing the ruling.