COUPLES ADOPT AS GAYS PROTEST: From the Orlando Sentinel

As 15 married couples appeared before a judge Friday at the Orange County Courthouse in Orlando to adopt a total of 23 kids, gay rights activists stood on the courthouse steps below campaigning for the same right -- to legally adopt children.

Activists of the Coalition for Fair Adoption in Orlando, Miami and Clearwater announced plans Friday to push for a repeal of a Florida law banning gays from adopting children. ...

The boy was one of the 3,300 Florida children in foster care eligible for adoption.

Coalition members are targeting those children. They say loving gay couples can parent as successfully as heterosexual parents and give children in the state's care a permanent home.

However, opponents of gays adopting argue that same-sex parents don't provide the parental role models children need. What a child needs, they say, is a mother and a father.

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