It shouldn’t be news, actually. Foster kids get adopted all the time. Not as often as we’d all like, certainly, but it does happen. So why would anyone care that Martin Gill adopted his two foster children? Gill was the boys’ foster parent for 6 years before the adoption became final on Wednesday. But it’s not so much the adoption itself that’s noteworthy but the route Gill took to get there. You see, Martin Gill is gay and, until recently, Florida was the only state in the nation with a law on the books that barred homosexuals from adopting. That is no longer the case, thanks to Gill and the ACLU.
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Florida Boys Get New Parents
Thursday, January 20th, 2011Court Rules: A Promise Is A Promise
Sunday, July 4th, 2010
Be careful what you promise your kids — you may have to follow through. When I was a young adult, my father told me that if I lost enough weight to fit into size 30 jeans, he would buy me a car. I got close, but never made it before he passed away. Someday, though, I will lose the weight and then I’ll visit my father’s grave and say “you owe me a car!” Of course, I realize that it would take a miracle to get him to pony up my new ride. For Dana Soderberg, on the other hand, all it took was a lawyer.
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