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“To all people of goodwill everywhere, to leaders of all faiths, to the architects of public opinion, to those at the helm of professional, women’s and youth organizations, to the UN General Assembly, to the heads of state and legislative bodies and to the mass media: We, the participants of the Moscow International Forum, express our profound concern because certain …

“Dear Governor Brown, I work for you. I am an Associate Professor of English and Classics at California State University-Northridge. I know that a bill, AB 1951, sponsored by Jimmy Gomez of Los Angeles, may reach your desk for signature soon. It will allow for birth certificates to be issued, which indicate gay men as ‘mother’ and lesbians as ‘father.’ …

Progress in Colombia: The Constitutional Court ruled on Thursday that a lesbian woman,could adopt her long-time partner’s daughter, since the child in question was the biological child of one of the two partners. The court said Ana Leiderman, who underwent artificial insemination to conceive her daughter, and raised her with Veronica Botero, had the right to request an adoption by …

Via The Local: A gay couple in Italy has become the first to be allowed to adopt a child. Rome’s Juvenile Court agreed to the adoption of a child by a lesbian couple, La Repubblica reported on Friday. The five-year-old is the daughter of one of the two partners, who were married abroad. It is the first case of a …

The law goes into effect on January 1st, 2015. (Tipped by JMG reader Andrea)

Gallup reports: A clear majority of Americans (63%) say same-sex couples should have the legal right to adopt a child, the most to say so since Gallup began tracking opinions on the matter more than 20 years ago. This is higher than Americans’ support for same-sex marriage (55%). A majority of Americans across all major demographics now say same-sex couples …

Reuters reports: Having a baby alters new mothers’ brain activity, researchers have found, and a new study adds the first evidence of such changes in the brains of gay men raising children they adopted through surrogacy. The men’s pattern of brain activity resembles that of both new mothers and new fathers in the study. The research, reported on Monday, could …

Last month the state of Utah filed an emergency petition with the state Supreme Court, demanding that all pending adoptions by gay couples be denied. The state Supreme Court has granted the stay petition and a local judge is furious. Via the Associated Press: The stay was granted Friday night in response to a Utah Attorney General’s Office request for …

Rev. Franklin Graham and Ralph Reed appeared on ABC’s This Week today to denounce gay parenting and gay adoption. Reed went all Regnerus and then immediately contradicted himself. “The social science on this is clear,” Reed said. “This isn’t about Vladimir Putin, this is about what’s best for children here in the United States. The social science is irrefutable: a …

Anti-gay Irish journalist John Waters says he’s now fearful for his safety after being paid €40,000 by state television shortly after he was denounced as a homophobe by drag performer Panti Bliss during a nationally televised show. “What is the great crime in taking money off the state broadcaster?” he asked, in an interview near his holiday home in Sligo …

The state of Utah has filed an emergency petition with the state Supreme Court, demanding that all pending adoptions by gay couples be denied. Many couples filed for second-parent adoptions during the brief period that same-sex marriages were allowed in Utah. A lesbian couple is among the first to be refused while the Court mulls the petition. The two came …

Former Democratic Florida Gov. Reubin Askew, who supported Anita Bryant’s campaign to ban gay schoolteachers and who in 1977 signed Florida’s statutory ban on same-sex marriage and gay adoption, has died of pneumonia at the age 85. Despite his opposition to LGBT rights and his other conservative positions, the New York Times today hails Askew as a progressive for his …

Longtime JMG readers might remember the above post from three years ago. Well, that douchebag has finally come out after having led the unsuccessful campaign to place a ban on same-sex marriage into the Puerto Rican constitution. Video via Andres Duque at Blabbeando: RELATED:  According to a 2011 JMG source, Arango not only supported that failed constitutional ban, he once …

The Detroit News has recapped today’s start of the federal trial to overturn Michigan’s ban on same-sex marriage. First, the good guys: Research shows a wide variety in how men and woman parent, but their gender is irrelevant to child outcomes, an expert testified Tuesday in a federal court trial challenging Michigan’s ban on same-sex marriage and adoption law. “Both …

Marriage has been legal there for months and months, but France’s neo-Nazi supported Manif Pour Tour carries on. Today’s clip announces major rallies in Paris and Lyon on February 2nd. Somebody want to translate all the graphics? UPDATE: They have taken down the clip. JMG readers have provided recaps and translations in the comments.

The Salt Lake Tribune reports: Utah made a subtle shift in its arguments in defense of opposite-sex marriage in a stay application to the U.S. Supreme Court filed Tuesday. Gone is any mention of procreation. Instead, the state talks about child-rearing without discussing how children may be produced. Utah argues one reason it is likely to ultimately prevail in reversing …

From the Times Of Malta: The Pope is “shocked” by Malta’s Civil Unions Bill, which will allow gay couples to adopt children, Auxiliary Bishop Charles Scicluna has told The Sunday Times of Malta. Defending his decision to use his Christmas homily to reiterate that a family had to be built around a man and a woman, Mgr Scicluna said he …

“We regulate the institution of marriage based on gender complementarity. When marriage fails, our state law works to protect the child’s relationship with both the mother and the father, not based on what the parents want, but based on the child’s right to have both genders modeled in his life. Owning children irrelevant to their own emotional or biological needs …

At least there’s some good news this week. Via BBC News: A ban on gay and unmarried couples applying to adopt children in Northern Ireland has been removed. They may now apply in the same way as heterosexual couples. Health Minister Edwin Poots had tried to challenge an appeal court decision to extend adoption rights to gay couples. However, the …

From the Family Equality Council: There are 400,000 young people in foster care waiting for a home. Millions of LGBT people are willing to become adoptive parents if they could – yet many states make it harder for them to adopt. Help knock down these barriers and ensure every child has a chance to find a home. Find out more.