Tag Archives: gay parenting

Love Makes A Family: Holiday Edition

A special message from Move On and Zach Wahls.

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YouTube Names Zach Wahls As Most-Watched Political Clip Of 2011

YouTube says: “Surpassing the President and various presidential hopefuls in views, the #1 video on our list comes from a young man in Iowa speaking candidly to his government. Zach Wahls’ 3 minute speech defending gay marriage has been viewed more than 18 million times.” YouTube’s 2011 Political Top Ten1. Zach Wahls speaks about family2. President Obama at the 2011 …

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Gay Dads Get Big News

JMG reader Subtle Knife commands you to watch this!

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President Obama Mentions Gay Parents In National Adoption Month Proclamation

An excerpt: The decision to adopt a child has brought profound joy and meaning into the lives of Americans across our country. Parents are moved to adopt for reasons as unique and varied as the children they embrace, but they are unified by the remarkable grace of their acts. Adoptive families come in all forms. With so many children waiting …

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Concerned Women Are Concernstipated About Gay People Adopting Guinea Pigs

The Concerned Women are going after Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who last week introduced a federal bill granting gay adoption rights in all states. “Something around 65,000 adopted children and 14,000 foster children live in homes that are headed by non-heterosexuals, and yet the data very overwhelmingly says these homes are not as good for children,” [Janet] Crouse notes. “They don’t …

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New Report On Gay Families

The Center for American Progress has posted an in-depth analysis of America’s gay families. Lot of interesting stuff there.

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Los Angeles Seeks Gay Parents

Los Angeles County has launched a publicity campaign seeking gay adoptive and foster parents for the over 30,000 children presently in their system. Via press release: The Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) is partnering with three non-profit organizations to recruit gay and lesbian families to foster and adopt children during November, National Adoption Month, in …

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Gay Adoptions Triple In Ten Years

The number of gay couples adopting children has tripled in the last ten years. “It’s a stratospheric increase. It’s like going from zero to 60,” said Miami attorney Elizabeth Schwartz, who has coordinated more than 100 adoptions for gay and lesbian families in the last year. “I think many really dreamed of doing this but it wasn’t something they ever …

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CANADA: Court Grants Custody To Former Partner Of Child’s Biological Father

In what’s being called a precedent setting ruling, a Canadian gay man has won custody of the child he helped raise with his ex-partner, the girl’s biological father. In part of a five-year constitutional battle involving the now eight-year-old girl, Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Suzanne Bensler ruled the man identified as H. is a parent instead of his gay …

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FLORIDA: New Gay Families Flourish After Lifting Of Adoption Ban

Fort Lauderdale’s Sun-Sentinel reports on the environment for Florida’s gay families since the lifting of the state’s ban on adoptions. For 33 years, Florida barred gays and lesbians from adopting. That changed last October, when Florida’s Third District Court of Appeal in Miami ruled the law unenforceable and the state declined to challenge it. Since then, family law attorneys estimate …

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Love Makes A Family

Gay dads + lesbian mom = terrific kid.

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Adventures Of A Gay Dad

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Liberty Counsel Publishes “Ex-Gay” Book About The Lisa Miller Kidnapping Case

Liberty Counsel attorney Rena Lindevaldsen has published a book about the Lisa Miller, the born-again “ex-gay” lesbian mom who kidnapped her own daughter rather than comply with multiple court orders to share custody with her former partner. The FBI has investigated the Liberty Counsel’s role in the kidnapping as Miller and her daughter were found to be living in Central …

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ABC’s What Would You Do? Tackles Homophobia Towards Gay Families

Even though the set-up took place in Texas, things definitely don’t happen the way some might expect. Get a tissue. (Tipped by JMG reader Gavin)

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Brooklyn Maternity Shop Offer Discounts For Lesbians Moms Only

A lesbian-owned maternity shop in Brooklyn’s Park Slope is offering a discount to lesbian moms only, although the owner doesn’t ask patrons to “prove” that they are gay. While a few people have looked “questioningly” at the placard advertising the unique discount, Paperno says the overall response to the lesbians-only promo is positive. “People are tickled by it,” Paperno says, …

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FBI Makes Arrest In Lisa Miller Case

The FBI have made an arrest in connection with Lisa Miller, the “ex-gay” mother who vanished with her daughter in 2009 after courts awarded custody of the child to Janet Jenkins, her former partner. When Miller failed to surrender Isabella Jenkins-Miller, now age nine, to her ex, police issued a warrant for parental kidnapping. Metro Weekly reports: According to court …

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Mike Huckabee: I Hate Everything In The Entire World To Do With Gay People

In so many words…

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The New Normal

Over on Parenting.com, a lesbian mom of twins relates her initial trepidation when another mother of twins sits down next to her at the airport. “No, we’re not sisters,” I say, as I have hundreds of times before (Emily and I do look somewhat similar). “We’re partners.” My new friend brightens and says, “Oh, who carried?” Who carried?! After I …

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More Christian Love From Donald Spitz: Gay Parents Should Be Imprisoned For Life

Pastor Donald Spitz of the Christian terrorist organization Army Of God is back with another message of Christian charity, this time saying that any gay person that has children should be imprisoned for life. Spitz was kicked out of Operation Rescue for publicly defending the murderers of abortion doctors, so we must be his new gig.

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