ACLU v.s. sore losers?

The fact that we still held people’s sexual orientation against them when it comes to adoption in the early 2000’s is something that is quite disturbing but the fact that laws banning the practice have been repealed is a step in the right direction. As the article about the repeal on the Florida ACLU page describes, the gay man had been raising two foster children on a spur of the moment notice and was a licensed foster care giver! The fact that he had invested four years in developing, teaching, and caring for the two children should be reason enough for him to continue to hold them in adoption. If the court had decided to remove the children from his care, the psychological stress that would have been imposed on the children, and the sense of loss felt by the parent, would have been a disgraceful blemish upon our state’s judicial system. The fact that we have an organization such as the ACLU in these cases is very good because this court case will hopefully remove this kind of a threat from any other families in the future. The court ruling that the ban violated the equal protection guarantees of the state constitution because it singles out for different treatment gay people and the children they raise for no rational reason were well thought out and will hopefully provide useful precedent for further LGBT civil rights advances. The ruling also holds a special significance because of the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 which protects adopted children’s rights to permanency. The fact that Anita Bryant, who we read about not two weeks ago, pushed this bill through which has now been revoked illustrates the return to intelligence and understanding that our state has needed. Another factor that is important to remember is that the law was one of the most expansive that was against homosexuals. The fact that CFCE performed a preliminary home study and the home received a positive sign-off should also have been reason enough to allow the children to remain in the homosexuals’ custody. The stance taken up by the Christian Coalition and the Liberty Counsel is also a little hard to defend, as their phrasing is pretty harsh. After all, who is against “family values issues” which is what the Coalition at least is in support of. Even homosexuals are pro-family in many cases, as long as the term “family” can mean homosexual or heterosexual families. They were actually approaching this issue as if homosexuality were an illness still, as I quote verbatim: that “the 1973 American Psychiatric Association ruling reversing homosexuality as a treatable condition… It appears as if this change occurred solely as a result of behind the scenes, political maneuvering within the APA by a small group of homosexuals.” Have you ever heard of such sore losers? They are attacking a group who was legitimately taken off of the APA's list of disorders simply because they can't stop them from adopting.