Florida child welfare administrators will not appeal last month's ruling that tossed out Florida's controversial gay-adoption law.Florida is the only state with a law that explicitly bans gays and lesbians from adopting children, although they can serve as foster parents.
George Sheldon, secretary of the Department of Children & Families, announced Tuesday his agency will not appeal a ruling by the Third District Court of Appeal that declared the 33-year-old law unconstitutional. The ruling involved two former foster children adopted by Frank Martin Gill, an openly gay North Miami man who took custody of the boys under DCF's authorization.
''It's clear that the District Court of Appeal decision is of statewide application, and it will be binding on all trial courts across the state,'' Sheldon said.
As of last week, the state had exhausted the time to challenge the Gill adoption, and so, regardless of the law's status, the two children will remain Gill's adoptive children, Sheldon said.
Here's to the happy families, and many, many more.
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