Last night CNN aired its latest …In America special titled "Gary and Tony Have a Baby" which the cable networked described as, “Soledad O'Brien [reporting] on a gay couple's journey to have a baby. Can these men achieve a life as mainstream as their parents?”
Today, CNN's special "Gay In America" website is up with another compelling story about an LGBT family of color described in the piece as “a modern-day Brady Bunch, with a twist.”
CNN's Brandon Clements reports:
David Mayer and Keith Kennard's family is a modern-day Brady Bunch, with a twist. David, 43, has three sons and a daughter. His partner, Keith, 47, has three boys of his own. Together they are two gay men raising seven children.
Their story reflects the changing face of the American family. The Williams Institute, an independent research group and UCLA think tank, estimates 20 percent (about 155,000) of same-sex couples in the U.S. are raising children younger than 18.
“It's a chaotic day keeping up with kids and doctors appointments and just their daily lives,” says Keith, a nurse at an Atlanta hospital. “We don't get a lot of rest.”
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In the U.S., one in six gay men has fathered or adopted a child, according to the Williams Institute. David and Keith each had children before their relationship. Three of their sons and their daughter are David's biological children from a heterosexual relationship. Their other sons are children Keith adopted when he was single.
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For gays and lesbians, adopting children can be tricky because adoption laws vary by state. Keith started the adoption process in Georgia and says he was up-front about his sexual orientation.
“I brought it up because I wanted to make sure that there wasn't any problem,” he says. “I had heard about the laws they had in Florida against [homosexual] individuals adopting children ... and I wasn't really sure what the laws were here in Georgia.”
Florida is the only state that bans gays and lesbians from adopting. The law dates back to 1977 and was inspired by singer Anita Bryant's campaign against extending certain rights to gays and lesbians. The issue of gay adoption is before Florida's Third District Court of Appeals.
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Other states, such as Mississippi and Utah, allow gay and lesbian individuals to adopt, but not same-sex couples. California, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Vermont and the District of Columbia all have policies that explicitly or implicitly state that sexual orientation may not be used to prevent gays and lesbians from adopting. Georgia, where David and Keith live, has no explicit laws prohibiting or allowing gays and lesbians to adopt children.
WorldNetDaily and Fox Nation should have read this story or watched CNN's special last night before attacking “Homo Depot” for exposing kids to the “homosexual lifestyle” and advancing the bogus myth that LGBT people are recruited. If they'd done that, perhaps they would have known that LGBT people have families just like everybody else.
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