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Liberty Counsel: Florida court ruling on adoption will harm children

By Alliance Alert

Liberty Counsel: "In 2004, the federal Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the same law against a challenge brought under the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution. Florida?s equal protection clause is construed the same way as the federal Equal Protection Clause . . . The Eleventh Circuit stated 'The legislature is the proper forum for this debate, and we do not sit as a superlegislature to award by judicial decree what was not achievable by political consensus.' However, today, in the case of In re: Matter of Adoption of X.X.G. and N.R.G, the state court of appeals struck down the same law, stating that it lacked a rational basis."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on September 22, 2010 (boomark / email).