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Even though district courts have overturned Florida’s ban on gay adoption, state House GOP Speaker Dean Cannon wants Gov. Rick Scott to enforce the ban still on the state books. Cannon said the Legislature may reassert its position affirming the prohibition if that becomes necessary, but is awaiting word whether the Scott administration will continue to enforce the ban. “The …

According to a study of data released by the U.S. Census, there are more gay couples raising children in the southern states than in urban states more traditionally considered to be gay hot spots. Child rearing among same-sex couples is more common in the South than in any other region of the country, according to Gary Gates, a demographer at …

Florida Gov. Rick “Medicare Fraud” Scott has appointed Christian activist David Wilkins to head the state Department of Children and Families, which is in charge of adoptions. Wilkins is the former head of a Baptist adoption agency which states that only “professed Christians” are eligible for consideration as parents. Gay rights groups are concerned that Scott’s move signals an intent …

Elton John and David Furnish give the world its first look of their newborn son via OK Magazine today. When asked who Zachary’s biological father is, Furnish replied: ‘We both contributed. For the time being we don’t have a clue. We look at him every day and at the moment he has Elton’s nose and my hands. ‘Neither of us …

The Williams Institute today reported (PDF) that a small study of the adolescent children of lesbian mothers showed no reported incidents of abuse by either their parents or another caregiver. The paper finds that none of the 78 NLLFS adolescents report having ever been physically or sexually abused by a parent or other caregiver. This contrasts with 26% of American …

He let the clock run down to the wire, but Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum announced today that he won’t be appealing the recent overturn on gay adoption. McCollum had until 5pm today to file his appeal and still gets manages to get in an anti-gay shot with his statement. “The constitutionality of the Florida law banning adoption by homosexuals …

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Florida AG Bill McCullom still opposes gay adoption, despite his $120,000 payment to George Rekers turning into a national laughing-stock. “I don’t believe the gay family model is good for the kids.”

Nadine Smith of Equality Florida handed the president a photo during Tuesday’s LGBT Pride Month reception at the White House. The accompanying letter read: Dear Mr. President, Thank you for the invitation to join you for the White House LGBT Pride Reception. On behalf of the 131,000 households that support the work of Equality Florida and all fair-minded Americans I …

Last week Father Tony and I attended a preview screening of CNN’s gay parenting documentary Gary & Tony Have A Baby, which follows New Yorkers Gary Spino and Tony Brown from finding an egg donor, to hiring a surrogate mother, to the eventual birth of their son. The couple’s journey is expensive and trying, but ultimately quite sweet, even if …

As he did for gay moms in his Mother’s Day message, President Obama mentions gay dads in his Father’s Day proclamation. An excerpt: Nurturing families come in many forms, and children may be raised by a father and mother, a single father, two fathers, a step father, a grandfather, or caring guardian. We owe a special debt of gratitude for …

“It seemed a real danger that the boy being raised by the same-sex couple would bring to school something obscene or pornographic, or refer to such things in conversation, as they go along with the same-sex lifestyle, which–as not being related to procreation– is inherently eroticized and pornographic. He might expose other children to such things, as he might easily …

“That proves the prejudice and bias of the study. This study was clearly designed to come out with one outcome — to attempt to sway people that children are not detrimentally affected in a homosexual household. You have to be a little suspicious of any study that says children being raised by same-sex couples do better or have superior outcomes …

According to a just published 20 year study, lesbians tend to be fantastic parents. But you knew that. When compared to teens of the same age, adolescents raised by lesbian parents are doing just fine socially, psychologically and academically, new research finds. Not only that, they have fewer social problems, and less aggressive and rule-breaking behaviors than other teens. The …

Florida’s newspapers are keeping the pressure on state Attorney General Bill McCollum. Today the Sarasota Herald-Tribune revealed that McCollum hired Dr. George Rekers even though his own staff warned him strongly against it. Which proves, again, that McCollum is a liar, as he’s previously he claimed that he only hired Rekers because his staff told him to. E-mails released Thursday …

For many months we’ve been wondering about the whereabouts of “ex-gay” Lisa Miller and her daughter Isabella, both of whom disappeared after a Vermont judge ruled that Miller must surrender custody of the child to her former partner. Miller had been represented by the anti-gay Liberty Counsel, who since January have claimed to have no knowledge of the pair’s location. …

Via Andres Duque at Blabbeando, who says: “How great is it that the editors of one of the most widely read Spanish-language magazines in the United States would deem it fit to honor Ricky Martin and his parenting as an openly gay man and, in doing so, highlight gay parenting in general? Appropriately, I also happened to come upon this …

Today is the 5th annual Blogging for LGBT Families Day. Tell us about your gay family. Do you have two moms? Are you a family of two dads? Tell us about your kids. And if you don’t yet have any, but want to have kids some day, tell us about that too.