Tag: same-sex couples
Senate Bill 1188 Puts Discrimination Ahead of Children in the Adoption Process
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), America’s largest civil rights organisation dedicated to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality, condemned Arizona Governor Jan Brewer and the Republican leadership in the state legislature for passing and signing into law SB 1188, which gives preference to married couples in the adoption process – at the exclusion of same-sex couples and single adults who wish to provide a loving home to children. The bill applies to public and private adoption agencies.
U.S. Taxpayers Spending $520 Per Hour Defending Discrimination
In order to defend discrimination by any means necessary, House Republican leaders have contracted with the law firm King & Spalding at the rate of $520 an hour to argue that they’re right to deny recognition to legally married couples, according to the contract made public today.
Denmark allows gay couples to adopt
Danish lawmakers have approved a law granting gay couples equal rights in adoption, according to the Herald Tribune.