A Florida circuit court judge has decided the state's 31-year-old gay-adoption ban is unconstitutional, allowing a homosexual man to adopt a teen boy.
The Florida adoption statute has been upheld as constitutional by the state Supreme Court, as well as a federal appeals court. Bruce Hausknecht, judicial analyst for Focus on the Family Action, said the trial judge is bound by those higher court precedents.
"This decision has no legal impact on the adoption statute itself," he said, "but it does demonstrate the arrogance of activist judges who believe they can and should legislate from the bench."
