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Five months after the passage of France’s marriage and adoption bill, a lesbian couple has been granted adoption rights. A couple being identified in local media reports as Caroline and Pascale A. were married in June, and on Thursday received approval for one wife’s two biological children, Laure and Lise, to be adopted by the other wife, Le Monde reports. …

Yesterday we learned that NOM watchdog Fred Karger has reached out to federal officials, asking that they investigate Brian Brown for possibly violating the Logan Act, which forbids citizens from collaborating with foreign governments against the interests of the United States. Five days after Brown’s speech to the Duma, they passed the bill which bans anybody from a country with …

“The perverts? No, it is unacceptable. Homosexuals are ‘perverts’ and should absolutely not be allowed to adopt children. Children who grow up in that kind of environment are destroyed psychologically.” – Russian MP Vitaly Milonov, speaking to Swedish television after Russia suspended adoptions to Sweden because of the legality of same-sex marriage there. The Local has more: “It’s terrible. We …

In the third of their four part series on the influence of American hate groups on Russia’s anti-gay movement, today Right Wing Watch reports that the infamous study by discredited Texas researcher Mark Regnerus was cited in the pending Russian bill that authorizes the government to seize children from the custody of their gay parents. When Russian lawmaker Alexei Zhuravlyov …

Right Wing Watch reports that at the invitation of Russia’s legislature, NOM president Brian Brown traveled there with a group of far-right French Catholic anti-gay activists to collaborate on the bill that bans gay couples from adopting.  The DUMA passed the bill five days after Brown’s visit. On June 13, 2013, just days after the Russian Duma passed laws banning …

President Vladimir Putin has signed a bill that bans foreign married same-sex couples from adopting Russian children. The new law prohibits adoption by same-sex foreign couples whose homeland recognizes their union as marriage, as well as by single people or unmarried couples from those countries. A Kremlin statement said the measure is intended to guarantee children a “harmonious” upbringing and …

“I commend Russia for banning all foreign same-sex couples from adopting Russian children. In the West the legalization of homosexuality has already lead to the destruction of the family unit. Children who have no knowledge of sex are being brainwashed in schools to accept the perversion of homosexual acts as being normal and praiseworthy. To chose someone of the same …

“It’s disturbingly classist and elitist for gay men to think they can love their children unreservedly after treating their surrogate mother like an incubator, or for lesbians to think they can love their children unconditionally after treating their sperm-donor father like a tube of toothpaste. It’s also racist and condescending for same-sex couples to think they can strong-arm adoption centers …

Responding in part to France’s passage of marriage equality, the Russian government will ban all adoptions by foreign same-sex couples. An amendment restricting foreign adoptions to “traditional” families would be submitted by the government to parliament in its autumn session, Alexei Levchenko, a spokesman for the deputy prime minister, Olga Golodets, said on Saturday. Russian legislation sets several requirements for …

UPDATE: The below-linked source has edited their opening sentence to read: “Portuguese parliament has approved Friday a bill that will allow same-sex married couples to adopt their partner’s biological or adopted children.” So it’s not full adoption rights. Below is my original post. Today the Portuguese Parliament narrowly approved adoption rights for same-sex couples. The vote was 99-94 with nine abstentions. The …

Today Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) is reintroducing the Every Child Deserves A Family Act, which would attempt to override state-level bans on gay adoptions by restricting federal funding “for states employing discriminatory practices in adoption and foster care placements based on sexual orientation, gender identity, or marital status or the sexual orientation or gender identity of the foster youth involved.” …

During a Meet The Press panel on same-sex marriage, yesterday Newt Gingrich issued the usual lie about gay adoption. “But what I’m struck with is the one-sidedness of the desire for rights,” he added. “There are no rights for Catholics to have adoption services in Massachusetts. They’re outlawed. There are no rights in DC for Catholics to have adoption service. …

World Net Daily and the rest of the wingnut-o-sphere are super upset with Paul Ryan.

At a Wisconsin town hall meeting, Rep. Paul Ryan said that while he still opposes same-sex marriage, he now supports gay adoption. Rebecca Leber and Zack Ford have the scoop at Think Progress: Confronted by an audience member about his anti-LGBT voting record — Ryan earned a “zero percent” score on gay rights from the Human Rights Campaign — the …

Tonight the French Senate approved the portion of its marriage equality bill that guarantees adoption rights to same-sex couples.  Anti-gay groups had been clinging to that aspect of the bill as their last possible chance to block final passage. Via Le Monde: Après l’adoption de l’article 1 du projet de loi sur le “mariage pour tous”, ouvrant la voie au …

In an effort to clear their names, a Connecticut gay couple has rejected a plea bargain offer and is demanding a trial on allegations that they sexually abused two of their adopted boys. Via WFSB-TV: George Harasz and Douglas Wirth are accused of raping and locking children in cages as well as other crimes. However, once this went to court, …

“The idea that there is something so wrong with same-sex households that it would be preferable for these children to go two or four or six years without permanent parents — an idea, again, that has little to no evidence behind it, and that is in fact contradicted by most of the evidence — bespeaks a homophobia so deep that it is …

“After thinking about this for some time, I realized that if you’re fortunate, age and knowledge breed compassion. The more I read the (U.S.) Constitution, the clearer it became that you just can’t deny rights to a specific class of people just because some are uncomfortable with what they do not understand. Too many elected officials take positions without thinking …

“We are disappointed that the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has taken the transparently political step of endorsing same-sex marriage in an attempt to influence the US Supreme Court. They have done a grave disservice to America’s children by endorsing a policy that intentionally deprives children of either a mother or a father. Their position seems to be that the …