Ban on Gay Adoptions Ignores Realities
Re “High Court Lets Ban on Gay Adoptions Stand,” Jan. 11: We can now thank the Supreme Court for allowing Florida to keep its discriminatory adoption laws, and in doing so harming thousands of parentless children. By not allowing gay and lesbian couples to adopt, Florida is depriving these children of stable, loving, two-parent households. Of course single heterosexuals, drug offenders and convicted felons are still allowed to adopt. Apparently Florida would rather increase the chance that these children will one day be sent to prison rather than risk them witnessing a kiss between two people of the same sex. After all, though there is no research that indicates homosexual parents raise defective (let alone homosexual) children, there is evidence that criminal parents raise criminal children. For the sake of the children, Florida must get its priorities straight.
Michael Schmale
La Jolla
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Your article calls the Liberty Council a “pro-family” organization.
The two plaintiffs in the case, Steve Lofton and Roger Croteau, took in two HIV-positive infants in 1988 as foster parents. The kids are now 17, and the two men wish to formally adopt them. Under Florida law, they can’t. I don’t see anything “pro-family” about a group defending a law that prohibits parents from adopting kids who are basically their own children.
Barry Wendell
Los Angeles
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