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BGLTSA board members also signed a "marriage resolution," issued by the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund...
...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 Holden and Galluccio...
...rights. In the most noted case, the state of Utah banned gay school clubs last year after students at Salt Lake City's East High formed such a group. The legislature got involved because the local school board feared that targeting gay clubs could provoke a lawsuit. Indeed, the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund has used legal threats to shelter gay-straight alliances at more than 20 schools nationally. Ironically, the fund's primary weapon is the federal Equal Access Act, a 1984 law designed to safeguard religious groups. The act says schools must treat clubs equally, regardless...
Seth J. Persily, a second-year law student and co-chair of Lambda, the Law School's gay students' association, agrees...
Members of Lambda and the undergraduate Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgendered and Supporters' Alliance (BGLTSA) spoke at the session...