Social Conservatives Respond to Same-Sex Adoption Ban Not Being Appealed

With Attorney General Bill McCollum announcing he will not appeal a decision to overturn the ban on same-sex couples adopting, which had been Florida law for more than 30 years, the leaders of the Florida Family Policy Council, an organization which defends traditional marriage, expressed their disappointment.

We are disappointed that DCF, the governor, and now the attorney general has failed to take the appeal and defend Floridas adoption law that rightly seeks to place children in homes with both a mother and a father, said the FFPC in a statement. We have been in active communication with the attorney generals office on this matter and understand there are some legitimate and complex legal issues which have persuaded his office to make this decision. We also recognize that the current 5-2 left leaning makeup of Floridas Supreme Court (directly created by Governor Crists recent judicial appointments) would likely have not ruled to uphold the statute, either. Nonetheless, for both the sake of legal finality, and the accountability of the judiciary, we believe the appeal should have been taken.

Gay-identified activists will herald the Gill case as some sort of a victory, continued the FFPC. But sadly, the decision only comes at the expense of the children who the social science research overwhelmingly demonstrates do better in every category when raised by both a married mom and dad. The court only asked the narrow question of whether homosexual parents harm children. The court never asked what research shows is best for children. Arguably, orphanages dont harm children either, but this is certainly not what is best. The courts illegitimate decision, which appears to now be the judge-made law of the land, has elevated the adult desires of a radical minority over what is clearly best for children -- namely to be placed with both a mother and a father. The official public policy in Florida is now that two dads are just as good as a mom and a dad, and yet research bears out that this is empirically false.