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...court-affirmed agreement, which resulted from settlement talks between state officials and the American Civil Liberties Union, contains some of the strongest gay-rights language ever approved by a state. While most pro-gay legislation has banned job and housing discrimination against gays, the adoption agreement enters more fraught territory. It not only says gay couples must be treated as full equals with straight couples but does so in the delicate arena of child rearing. Although most Americans oppose discrimination against lesbians and gays, the country has been less certain that they should be allowed to marry and adopt. Last...
Last week New Jersey became the first state to explicitly allow lesbian and gay couples to adopt children jointly, just as married couples do. The state agreed to change its policy after Holden, Galluccio and a group of 200 other gay couples brought a lawsuit arguing that New Jersey's no-gay-couples rule violated both state law and their right to equal protection. Previously, gays in the state could adopt only as individuals, forcing couples to undertake the lengthy and expensive adoption process twice. Now, all unmarried couples, gay and straight, can adopt...
...sure, Holden and Galluccio aren't the first American gay partners to adopt jointly. Judges in other states, including California, have quietly allowed such adoptions in the past, according to the A.C.L.U.'s Michael Adams, the point man on the New Jersey case. And according to a 1996 report by the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, a gay legal-rights group, courts in 21 states have approved so-called second-parent adoptions, or adoptions by the partners of individuals who have given birth to or who have already adopted a child. (This was the lengthy double-adoption procedure that...
...bickering meant little to Adam, the two-year-old who started it all. Born addicted to cocaine and suffering from a respiratory virus and a weak liver, his chief concern last week was trying to open some of the Christmas presents crammed under the tree. Having finalized his adoption in October, Holden, 34, and Galluccio, 35, plan to adopt their foster daughter as well. Of Adam, Holden said last week, "he has had two physical parents, two psychological parents, two emotional parents. The only things we weren't were his two legal parents." Now Adam has those as well...
...ongoing battle between the unstoppable force that is Microsoft and the immovable object that is the Justice Department's antitrust division. As expected, Microsoft is appealing Judge Thomas Jackson's temporary order to stop using its Windows 95 monopoly as a stick to force computer makers to adopt its Internet Explorer Web browser. Microsoft claims the two products are inseparable. If the judge insists, however, it is willing to offer computer makers a choice between Windows 95 with Explorer built in and a two-year-old, "dumbed down" version so obsolete that it doesn't work with the newest software...