Florida is one of two states that have instituted bans on adoption for LGBT families, sharing the dubious honor with Arkansas. Thankfully, there’s movement in Florida to overturn this out-dated law that not only fosters homophobia, but punishes children by keeping them away from healthy families.

First a judge last year in Miami ruled that the ban on gay adoption was illegal. Then came word this week that a candidate for governor in Florida, Alex Sink, supports overturning the ban.

That’s huge news, in part because Alex Sink’s opponent in the Governor’s race — current state Attorney General Bill McCollum — proudly defends the ban on gay adoption and believes that homosexuality fosters depression and psychological illness. Those are McCollum’s exact words in a lawsuit filed to keep the gay adoption ban in place. Seems like he’d rather have children languish in America’s foster care system than see them placed with qualified and outstanding parents.

To be clear, nearly every single study on adoption shows that not only do children do well when they are placed with LGBT parents, but they in some cases outperform children raised by straight parents. Moreover, massive numbers of studies show that gay parents are just as gifted and qualified to raise children than straight parents.

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