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Gay couple adoption is legal in most states. Different states have different rules for gay adoption. They are... (RR/DQ**):**
 * Johnson, Ramon. "Where is Gay Adoption Legal." 05 11 2008. About.com. About. 4/3/09 .**
 * 1) Alabama-Permits single GLBT adoption. Does not clearly prohibit joint gay adoption. Second-parent adoption allowed in some areas.
 * 2) Alaska-Permits single GLBT adoption. Does not clearly prohibit joint gay adoption. Second-parent adoption allowed in some areas.
 * 3) Arizona-Permits single GLBT adoption. Does not clearly prohibit joint gay adoption. Second-parent adoption unclear.
 * 4) Arkansas-Arkansas Act One prohibits unmarried couples (both same sex and opposite sex) from adopting or fostering children. More on
 * 5) California-Permits single GLBT and joint adoption. Second-parent adoption allowed.
 * 6) Colorado-Permits same-sex couple adoption. Also allows grandparents and other individuals helping raise the child to adopt.
 * 7) Connecticut-Permits single GLBT and joint adoption. Second-parent adoption allowed.
 * 8) Delaware-Permits single GLBT adoption. Does not clearly prohibit joint gay adoption. Second-parent adoption allowed in some areas.
 * 9) District of Columbia-Permits single GLBT and joint adoption. Second-parent adoption allowed.
 * 10) Florida-Prohibits single and joint gay adoption.
 * 11) Georgia-Permits single GLBT adoption. Does not clearly prohibit joint gay adoption. Second-parent adoption unclear.
 * 12) Hawaii-Permits single GLBT adoption. Does not clearly prohibit joint gay adoption. Second-parent adoption allowed in some areas.
 * 13) Idaho-Permits single GLBT adoption. Does not clearly prohibit joint gay adoption. Second-parent adoption unclear.
 * 14) Illinois-Permits single GLBT and couples adoption. Second-parent adoption allowed.
 * 15) Indiana-Permits single GLBT adoption. Does not clearly prohibit joint gay adoption. Second-parent adoption allowed in some areas.
 * 16) Iowa-Permits single GLBT adoption. Does not clearly prohibit joint gay adoption. Second-parent adoption allowed in some areas.
 * 17) Kansas-Permits single GLBT adoption. Does not clearly prohibit joint gay adoption. Second-parent adoption unclear.
 * 18) Kentucky-Permits single GLBT adoption. Does not clearly prohibit joint gay adoption. Second-parent adoption unclear.
 * 19) Louisiana-Permits single GLBT adoption. Does not clearly prohibit joint gay adoption. Second-parent adoption allowed in some areas.
 * 20) Maine-Permits single GLBT adoption. On August 30, 2007 the Maine Supreme Judicial Court ruled unanimously in their favor on grounds that prohibiting the adoption would be counter to Maine's Adoption Act.
 * 21) Maryland-Permits single GLBT adoption. Joint gay adoption unclear. Second-parent adoption allowed in some areas.
 * 22) Massachusetts-Permits single GLBT and joint adoption. Second-parent adoption allowed.
 * 23) Michigan-Permits single GLBT adoption. Prohibits joint adoption. Second-parent adoption unclear.
 * 24) Minnesota-Permits single GLBT adoption. Joint gay adoption unclear. Second-parent adoption allowed in some areas.
 * 25) Mississippi-Permits single GLBT adoption. Prohibits joint adoption. Second-parent adoption unclear.
 * 26) Missouri-Single GLBT and joint adoption unclear. Second-parent adoption unclear.
 * 27) Montana-Permits single GLBT adoption. Does not clearly prohibit joint gay adoption. Second-parent adoption unclear.
 * 28) Nebraska-Single GLBT adoption unclear. Does not clearly prohibit joint gay adoption. Prohibits second-parent adoption.
 * 29) Nevada-Permits single GLBT adoption. Does not clearly prohibit joint gay adoption. Second-parent adoption allowed in some areas.
 * 30) New Hampshire-Permits single GLBT adoption. Prohibits joint adoption. Second-parent adoption unclear.
 * 31) New Jersey-Permits single GLBT and joint adoption. Second-parent adoption allowed.
 * 32) New Mexico-Permits single GLBT and joint adoption. Second-parent adoption allowed in some areas.
 * 33) New York-Permits single GLBT and joint adoption. Second-parent adoption allowed
 * 34) North Carolina-Permits single GLBT adoption. Joint adoption unclear. Second-parent adoption unclear.
 * 35) North Dakota-Single GLBT and joint adoption unclear. Second-parent adoption unclear.
 * 36) Ohio-Permits single GLBT adoption. Does not clearly prohibit joint gay adoption. Second-parent adoption not allowed.
 * 37) Oklahoma-Permits single GLBT adoption. Does not clearly prohibit joint gay adoption. Second-parent adoption unclear.
 * 38) Oregon-Permits single GLBT and joint adoption. Second-parent adoption allowed in some areas.
 * 39) Pennsylvania-Permits single GLBT adoption. Joint adoption unclear. Second-parent adoption allowed.
 * 40) Rhode Island-Permits single GLBT adoption. Does not clearly prohibit joint gay adoption. Second-parent adoption allowed in some areas.
 * 41) South Carolina-Permits single GLBT adoption. Joint adoption unclear. Second-parent adoption unclear.
 * 42) South Dakota-Permits single GLBT adoption. Joint adoption unclear. Second-parent adoption unclear.
 * 43) Tennessee-Permits single GLBT adoption. Does not clearly prohibit joint gay adoption. Second-parent adoption unclear.
 * 44) Texas-Permits single GLBT adoption. Joint adoption unclear. Second-parent adoption allowed in some areas.
 * 45) Utah-Permits single GLBT adoption. Joint adoption prohibited. Second-parent adoption unclear.
 * 46) Vermont-Permits single GLBT and joint adoption. Second-parent adoption allowed.
 * 47) Virginia-Permits single GLBT adoption. Does not clearly prohibit joint gay adoption. Second-parent adoption unclear.
 * 48) Washington-Permits single GLBT adoption. Joint adoption unclear. Second-parent adoption in some areas.
 * 49) West Virginia-Permits single GLBT adoption. Does not clearly prohibit joint gay adoption. Second-parent adoption unclear.
 * 50) Wisconsin-Permits single GLBT adoption. Does not clearly prohibit joint gay adoption. Second-parent adoption prohibited.
 * 51) Wyoming-Permits single GLBT adoption. Joint adoption unclear. Second-parent adoption unclear.

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 * Stone, Andrea. "Both sides on gay adoption cite concern for children." __USA Today__ 2 20 2006. 4/6/06 .**
 * 1) Efforts to ban gays and lesbians from adopting children are emerging across the USA they began during the 2004 elections over same-sex marriage
 * 2) The American Academy of Pediatrics,is in support of gay adoption
 * 3) The Child Welfare League of America and adoption advocacy groups cite research that children with gay or lesbian parents fare as well as those raised in families with a mother and a father
 * 4) Conservative groups such as Concerned Women for America say the research is flawed
 * 5) There are about 520,000 children in foster care
 * 6) Of those, 120,000 are available for adoption, but only 50,000 find permanent homes each year
 * 7) A UCLA demographer, analyzed 2000 Census data and estimates that about 250,000 children are being raised by same-sex couples and that 5% of those children, or 12,500, were adopted.
 * 8) Asked about a constitutional amendment to ban adoptions by gays and lesbians, 58% of Missouri voters polled in November and 62% of Ohio voters this month said they would vote against it.
 * 9) "Now that we've defined what marriage is, we need to take that further and say children deserve to be in that relationship," says Greg Quinlan of Ohio's Pro-Family Network, a conservative Christian group.
 * 10) Ballot victories. Social conservatives view family makeup as the next battleground after passing marriage amendments in 11 states in 2004. They welcomed a bill introduced this month in Ohio that would ban gays and lesbians from adopting or raising foster children. They vow to put it on the ballot if the bill fails.
 * 11) Patrick Guerriero of Log Cabin Republicans, a gay political group opposed to marriage and adoption limits, calls the strategy the next step by conservatives.
 * 12) Election-year politics. Republicans battered by questions over ethics and Iraq "might well" use the adoption issue to deflect attention and draw out conservatives in close Senate and governor races in states such as Missouri and Ohio, says Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, University of Southern California political scientist.
 * 13) The aim is to replicate 2004, says Julie Brueggemann of the gay rights group PROMO: Personal Rights of Missourians. She says marriage initiatives mobilized conservative voters in 2004 and helped President Bush win in closely contested states such as Ohio. Republicans "see this as a get-out-the-vote tactic."
 * 14) Republican pollster Whit Ayres is skeptical. Adoption, he says, "doesn't have the emotional power of the gay marriage issue because there is no such thing as the phrase 'the sanctity of adoption.' "
 * 15) Religious groups and state courts are grappling with the issue
 * 16) Roman Catholic bishops in Massachusetts are seeking an exemption from state anti-bias laws to allow the church to bar gays from adopting through its social service agencies.
 * 17) A judge in Missouri ruled last week that the state could not deny a foster care license to a lesbian
 * 18) Out of 45132 people, 73% voted yes, they should be allowed to adopt jointly
 * 19) 2% voted yes, but only singly, not jointly
 * 20) and 25% voted no, not at all


 * Associated Press, "Same-Sex Marriages Expected To Begin In Iowa On April 24." __Frederick News Post__ 5 4 2009: cols. 4. (MZ)**
 * 1) The Iowa Supreme Court unanimously upheld lower court ruling that rejected a state law for marriage between a man and woman.
 * 2) Same sex marriage opponents try to enact residency requirements in Iowa.
 * 3) Gays and lesbians cannot travel to Iowa just to wed.
 * 4) Only Massachusetts and Connecticut currently allow same-sex marriage.
 * 5) For six months, last year, California's court allowed same-sex marriage before banned in November.
 * 6) Vermont House of Representatives allow same sex couples to wed.
 * 7) In downtown Des Moines, 300 people gathered below rainbow flags to celebrate.
 * 8) The Rev. Diane McLanahan of Trinity United Methodist Church in Des Moines acknowledged that many people won't agree with the ruling.
 * 9) She said the court has reached a decision that it will not be a debate about religious rights but about equality and fairness.
 * 10) The Supreme Court upheld a decision by a judge who found a state law limiting marriage to a man and woman violates the constitutional rights.
 * 11) Without a vote by legislature this year or next, the soonest same sex marriage won't be until repealed until 2014.
 * 12) "We finally have equality in Iowa," said Harold Delaria who attended the rally and has two gay children.
 * 13) Also, she said "It's kind of the last wall of legalized discrimination and it's coming tumbling down"
 * 14) At a news conference, announcing the decisaon plaintiff Kate Varmum introduced her partner, Trish Varnum, as her fiance.
 * 15) Same sex marriage supporters hoped to convince a few Vermont legislators to switch when it comes to the override vote, which could be taken as soon as Tuesday.
 * 16) Jason Morgan said he and his partner Chuck Swaggerty adopted two sons.
 * 17) "If being together throguh all of that isn't love and commitment or isn't family or marriage then I don't know what it is" Morgan said.
 * 18) He also mentioned, "We are very happy with the decision today and are very proud to live in Iowa."
 * 19) Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal, a Democrat, said state lawmakers were unlikely to consider same sex marriage legislation in this legislative session, which is expected to end in a few weeks.
 * 20) Gronstal also said he's "not inclined" to propose a constitutional amendment during next year's session.


 * Skillen, James W. "Marriage and Homosexual Rights." __Capital Commentary__ . 2003. The Center for Public Justice. 4/7/09 []. (MZ, RR, DQ, AS)**
 * 1) Amendment to the US Constitution working its way through Congress, it's important to clarify the difference between the rights of citizens and the rights of marriage.
 * 2) Civil rights in the American republic means that many activities & relationships among citizens require no recognition in public law.
 * 3) To the rights of individuals there are also rights of different kinds of associations, organizations, and institutions.
 * 4) Government cannot do justice to human society if it does not distinguish a non profit research center from a profit making industry, a church from a university, and a marriage from a friendship.
 * 5) The attempt to attain the legal identification of marriage for a homosexual relationship is, therefore, a legal error based on an empirical mistake.
 * 6) Changes should be designed to accomodate the full range of unmarried partnerships and not only gay and lesbian partners.
 * 7) It would amount to unjust civil rights discrimination to single out one kind of non marital relationship for a privledge usually granted to marriage partners and their families while denying that priviledge to other kinds of enduring non marital partnerships and friendships.
 * 8) People who are homosexually oriented, just as those who are heterosexually oriented should, as citizens, have the same rights to enjoy such freedom of association.
 * 9) The political and legal debate over marriage should focus on the question of the institutional identity of marriage and not, first of all, on the morality or immorality of different kinds of sexual relationships.

**Wise, Ted. "Human Rights and the Homosexual." 1997. LDolphin. 4/7/09 [].**

admin. "Homosexual Rights." 1994. International Humanist and Ethical Union. 4/7/09 . Homosexual rights At its Board meeting in Toronto, July 1994, the [|IHEU] passed the following resolution on gay rights:  1. That one of its main aims is to secure justice and fairness in society and to eliminate discrimination and intolerance.  2. That this extends to all people regardless of their beliefs, sex, sexual orientation, or race.  3. That homosexuality and bisexuality are the natural orientation of a human minority which has existed throughout history.  4. That lesbians, gays and bisexuals make as valuable a contribution to society as their heterosexual counterparts.  5. They are a cross-section of humanity, differing in no perceptible ways from their fellow human beings, other than in their sexual orientation.  6. That the fear and hatred of lesbians and gays, known as homophobia, is totally irrational.  7. It is a social evil akin to racism and, as the Nazi experience has shown, can have the same evil consequences.  8. It harms both the victimized individuals and the society which tolerates it.  9. Being of the opinion that all people should have the freedom to choose their own lifestyle and - regardless of their sexual orientation - are fundamentally equal and have equal rights:  10. Being of the opinion that this right of individual self-determination and equality form the basis of democracy and should be defended against all forms of prejudice:  11. Having taken note of the contents of the statement made by the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on the position of gay men and lesbians, a statement which implies that discrimination against gay people is permissible because homosexuality is - in the words of the statement - "an objective disorder":  12. Is of the opinion that this Vatican policy is a violation of [|human rights] and could be used as a justification for continued discrimination against gay men and lesbians: <span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black; font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana;"> 13. Strongly condemns this Vatican policy as immoral and lacking in humanity This organization is taking affirmative action toward promoting gay rights; our group encourages you to, as well
 * 1) The IHEU calls on all its affiliated organizations:-
 * 2) To draw up and publicize a similar policy statement.
 * 3) To help promote an understanding and acceptance of homosexuality and bisexuality in their country.
 * 4) To support the campaigns of organizations seeking to achieve full legal equality for lesbians, gays, and bisexuals in their country.
 * 5) <span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">    To oppose legal and social discrimination against lesbians, gays and bisexuals on a national level wherever this is necessary.
 * 1) <span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;">    To oppose legal and social discrimination against lesbians, gays and bisexuals on a national level wherever this is necessary.