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Kate Kendell of NCLR on Choosing Children’s 25th Anniversary

Written on 26 Aug, 2010 at 14:24 in Adoption, Commentary, Couples Talk, Events, Family, Family Life, Featured, Film Festivals, LGBT Rights, News, Photo Posts | viewed times | 0 Comments

“Lets have kids  dear!” Posted by Melanie Nathan Choosing Children 08.26.10 A letter from Kate Kendell:- Twenty-five years ago, I was 25 years old and just starting law school at the University of Utah. I was parenting my daughter Emily, who was... (Continue reading)

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Angelina Jolie is Not Going to Force Shiloh to be Pretty Princess Because the Media Says So

Written on 6 Aug, 2010 at 9:16 in Adoption, Celebrities, Entertainment, Family, Family Life, Featured, LGBT Children | viewed times | 2 Comments

Image via Wikipedia 08/06/2010- by Natasia Langfelder Angelina Jolie is constantly criticized for “forcing” daughter Shiloh to “dress like a boy” and thus turning her into a disgusting manly lesbo. Angelina has defended Shiloh in the past and now the philanthropic lady is... (Continue reading)

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Lesbian Couple Stands Up for Second Parent Adoption Laws

Written on 10 May, 2010 at 16:06 in Adoption, Family, Featured, Video Posts | viewed times | 0 Comments

Domestic partners Christy Chung and Lancy Woo are working on behalf of Second Parent Adoption Laws. For more on what you can do to aid the fight for LGBT rights please visit www.aclu.org. ... (Continue reading)

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Rachel Maddow Explains and Exposes Just Why Rekers Case is so Important

Written on 8 May, 2010 at 3:28 in Adoption, Analysis, Entertainment, Family, Featured, Hot Topics, In The Courts, News, Religion, Special Reports, TV | viewed times | 9 Comments

05-08-10  Melanie Nathan Rachel Maddow, on her MSNBC show tells the Rekers story in clear and express terms while exposing  a letter sent by George Rekers to the thousands of  schools under the guise of misleading letter head (organization) informing requesting... (Continue reading)

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Rekers Begs Rentboy to Stop Interviews – Finally the Full Monty

Written on 7 May, 2010 at 14:13 in A Gay Girl's View, Adoption, Anti-Gay, Commentary, Family, Family & Children, Featured, Hot Topics, In The Courts, LGBT Rights, News, Op-Eds, Religion | viewed times | 16 Comments

Image via Wikipedia 5-7-10 by Melanie Nathan The name Rekers, has been bouncing from blogger to blogger, with Miami New Times at the helm of the expose of the beast who ‘would separate gay families.”  George Alan Rekers, a voracious anti-gay ex-gay,... (Continue reading)

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Chicago Couple Wants To Show Huckabee They Know The Difference Between Children And Puppies

Written on 18 Apr, 2010 at 12:21 in Adoption, Family, Family & Children, Featured, LGBT Rights, News, People, Politics | viewed times | 8 Comments

Image via Wikipedia 4/18/10-by Paula Brooks A gay couple in Chicago has invited former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee to show him same-sex parents know they are not raising puppies. The College of New Jersey’s newspaper, “The Perspective” reported last week that Huckabee equated... (Continue reading)

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Public Invitation- Ending Discrimination in Adoption and Foster Care

Written on 9 Mar, 2010 at 20:45 in Adoption, Events, Family, Family Life, Featured, News, Political, Politics | viewed times | 4 Comments

With only 50,000 adoptions each year, there is a clear shortage of adoptive parents. The result is that children, especially minority and special needs children, languish in care and bounce from placement to placement. The 25,000 youth who never... (Continue reading)

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5th Circuit Appeal: Court Upholds Child’s right to Both Fathers on Birth Certificate

Written on 21 Feb, 2010 at 20:40 in Adoption, Family, Featured, In The Courts, LGBT Children, News | viewed times | 31 Comments

By Melanie Nathan.  2-20-10.   Lambda Legal heads case in what will undoubtedly turn out to be landmark.  The result – the  US Constitution requires state officials across the country “to respect the parent-child relationships established by adoption decrees, regardless... (Continue reading)

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Another Judge Calls Florida Anti-Gay Adoption Law Unconstitutional, Grants Lesbian Couple Baby Boy

Written on 31 Jan, 2010 at 21:25 in Adoption, Family, Family Equality, Featured, In The Courts, News | viewed times | 5 Comments

“There is no rational connection between sexual orientation and what is or is not in the best interest of a child,” says Florida Judge. 1/31/10-by Paula Brooks A judge in Miami has called a third strike on a 1977 Florida law that... (Continue reading)

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Gay Adoption Ban Upheld in Sydney

Written on 11 Jan, 2010 at 11:21 in A Gay Girl's View, Adoption, Commentary, Family, Featured, News, Politics, World | viewed times | 1 Comment

The state government of Sydney, Australia had been considering legislation that would make it possible for the LGBT community to adopt children. There was a parliamential inquiry into the matter that suggested allowing gay adoption would benefit the Australian State... (Continue reading)

Catholic Article Provides Secular Argument for Gay Equality

Written on 29 Nov, 2009 at 16:17 in Activism, Adoption, Anti-Gay, Commentary, Editorials, Family, Family Equality, Family Life, Featured, Hot Topics, Op-Eds, Religion, Special Reports | viewed times | 12 Comments

 By Melanie Nathan -  After much back and forth emanating from my article on the Manhattan Declaration, a comment by Paula Brooks (thanks Paula) sent me scurrying to the CATH PEWS site.  If you have read the thread of over... (Continue reading)

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Sir Elton John refused permission to adopt Ukrainian toddler

Written on 15 Sep, 2009 at 8:21 in Adoption, Entertainment, Featured, News, People | viewed times | 1 Comment

9/15/09-by Paula Brooks Sir Elton John and his partner David Furnish have been denied permission to adopt a 14 month-old HIV positive orphan by the Ukrainian government because according to them, Sir Elton is too old and too gay. The Ukraine Minister... (Continue reading)

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New DC Law Will Protect Non Biological Lesbian Moms

Written on 26 Jul, 2009 at 11:31 in Adoption, Family, Featured, News, Politics | viewed times | 2 Comments

A new District of Columbia law, which took effect on July 18, 2009, will afford woman who bear children conceived by artificial insemination, to have their same sex spouse or unmarried partner appear as a parent on the child’s birth... (Continue reading)

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