A judge has overturned a 30 years old law that prevented gay people from adopting children, allowing a Miami man to adopt two half-brothers he had been raising with his partner for four years. .
Martin Gill and his partner had been fostering the two half-brothers, but had wanted to make the arrangement permanent.
"There is no question, the blanket exclusion of gay applicants defeats Florida's goal of providing dependent children a permanent family through adoption," Judge Cindy Lederman wrote in her ruling.
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Lederman said the ban violated children's right.
"The best interests of children are not preserved by prohibiting homosexual adoption."
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Source: DNA - 26/Nov/2008.
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