Court rules Fla. must honor gay second-parent adoptions

[WillParkinson]

Court rules Fla. must honor gay second-parent adoptions

Sarasota, Fla.) Today, the Florida Court of Appeals unanimously reversed a lower court ruling and held that Florida must give full faith and credit to adoptions granted to same-sex couples by other states, holding that Lara Embry, the plaintiff in the case, “must be given the same rights as any other adoptive parent in Florida.”

The court based its decision on the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the federal constitution and a Florida statute requiring Florida to honor adoption decrees from other states.

Noting that “there are no public policy exceptions to the full faith and credit which is due to judgments entered in another state,” the court concluded that “regardless of whether the trial court believed that the Washington adoption violated a clearly established public policy in Florida, it was improper for the trial court to refuse to give the Washington judgment full faith and credit.”

http://www.365gay.com/news/court-rules-fla-must-honor-gay-second-parent-adoptions/

[GodlessBiker]

1. Love it when it's unanimous!

[BR_Parkway]

2. Wonder how that would apply to marriage?

[t0dd]

3. So gay adoption is 100% legal in Florida, right?

The gay adoption ban statute was struck down last November in a Miami-Dade Circuit Court. Is that being appealed?