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Same-sex parents sue over North Carolina adoption law
Source: Reuters
Same-sex parents sue over North Carolina adoption law
By Colleen Jenkins
WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina | Wed Jun 13, 2012 9:01pm EDT
(Reuters) - A civil liberties group filed a federal lawsuit on Wednesday challenging North Carolina's prohibition against same-sex couples adopting each other's children.
The ban on so-called second parent adoptions violates the constitutional rights of gay and lesbian parents and their children, according to the complaint filed in Greensboro by the American Civil Liberties Union.
North Carolina is one of eight U.S. states where same-sex couples are barred from adopting children together and/or are not allowed to have one partner adopt the other's biological or adoptive children, according to the ACLU.
A December 2010 decision by the North Carolina Supreme Court held that state statutes allowed married couples, stepparents and individuals to adopt, but blocked gay or straight unmarried couples from doing so, said Chris Brook, legal director of the ACLU in North Carolina.
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By Colleen Jenkins
WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina | Wed Jun 13, 2012 9:01pm EDT
(Reuters) - A civil liberties group filed a federal lawsuit on Wednesday challenging North Carolina's prohibition against same-sex couples adopting each other's children.
The ban on so-called second parent adoptions violates the constitutional rights of gay and lesbian parents and their children, according to the complaint filed in Greensboro by the American Civil Liberties Union.
North Carolina is one of eight U.S. states where same-sex couples are barred from adopting children together and/or are not allowed to have one partner adopt the other's biological or adoptive children, according to the ACLU.
A December 2010 decision by the North Carolina Supreme Court held that state statutes allowed married couples, stepparents and individuals to adopt, but blocked gay or straight unmarried couples from doing so, said Chris Brook, legal director of the ACLU in North Carolina.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/14/us-usa-ncarolina-gay-adoption-idUSBRE85D01H20120614
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North Carolina needs to be taken to the woodshed on several things. 
