Gay adoptions.

The Family Law Section Executive Council voted to show its support for gay adoption via gay foster parenting at the expense of the abused and neglected foster children it claims to be serving.

This council is attempting to promote its gay agenda at the expense of vulnerable children's sexual identities. Children in foster care who may not initially have a healthy introduction into human sexuality due to their own histories as abuse victims do not need to add gender role model confusion to the list. Confused children, without proper intervention, become confused adults. As these children become confused adults, such proposed norm of gay foster home or gay adoptive home becomes the starting point where young adults, and some children as well, develop sexually. Naturally at a later time, some of these children, as young adults, will become love targets for romantic recruiters in the gay foster parents' communities.

Some claim that it would be cruel not to allow children to be adopted by gay foster parents because they have already bonded with them. To a most limited degree, I agree. Shame on the legislators and the Florida Department of Children and Families which licenses foster homes and has approved gay foster homes for licensing. DCF is charged with the public responsibility to protect children first, then assure permanency either with family or in an adoptive home. Stringing children along for years in a dead-end home placement which cannot legally materialize into an adoptive home is poor state planning. DCF has hurt Florida's abused and neglected children in many other ways and this is just another one of them. Moreover, gay applicants who have foster parenting licenses knew the status of the law as to Florida Statutes 63.042 [section], on gay adoptions before they applied for foster parenting licenses. They are by no means duped by the existing state of adoptions law.

If the Family Law Section Executive Council seeks a public show of politically correct support to the gay agenda, it should not do so to the developmental detriment of abused and neglected children in so-called state care.

George L. Metcalfe, Sr.

Miami

I am more than a little confused over Family Law Section Chair Evan Marks' belief that supporting FIB 633 or SB 1534, which would allow homosexual couples to adopt children, could be any less controversial than the section's original request to lobby for the repeal of Florida Statute [section] 63.042, banning "gay"...