Be Prepared for Ruling on Florida’s Antigay Adoption Ban
an Equality Florida Action Alert
(Tampa, FL) Any day, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals is expected to hand down a decision on the legality of Florida’s ongoing antigay adoption ban. Florida is the only state in the country that specifically excludes gay and lesbian individuals or couples from adopting children.

While 3,500 children await adoption in Florida, Gov. Bush argues that the ban should be upheld, and thousands of families eliminated from consideration.

Approximately 30% of all Florida adoptions are single parent adoptions. In fact, the Department of Children and Family Services recently changed its internal policy to reflect this reality and discontinued the practice of showing favoritism for married couples over single parents.

Regardless of how the court rules, Equality Florida is asking our citizen activists to make every effort to join us in celebration or protest at a rally in major cities across Florida.

We will gather at the below listed location at 6:00 PM on whatever day the decision is handed down. We will notify you through Equality Florida’s Action Alert e-mail listserv as early in the day as possible.

Please be prepared to join us in celebration or protest for a decision that has national implications. If Florida’s adoption ban stands, many other states are prepared to implement similar measures to deny lesbian and gay parents the right to adopt. Thousands more children from across the nation could be without future adoptive families as a result of this ruling.

Equality Florida Office / The Center
3708 Swann Ave, Tampa, FL 33609
(813) 870-3735 (x214)