The good news: FL Attorney General Bill McCollum announced Oct. 22 that the state would not appeal the recent appelate court decision declaring Florida's gay adoption ban unconstitutional. The excellent LGBT legal and political news site, Keen News Service, published a thorough summary of the case, the outcome of which may mean the ban is now history.
But the operative word is "may." McCollum's statement included this bet-hedging quote: “No doubt someday a more suitable case will give the Supreme Court the opportunity to uphold the constitutionality of this law.”
In other words, the law ain't off the books yet, and if the right case comes along…
This article appears in Oct 21-27, 2010.
