Florida: Gay adoption push renewed
By STEVE BOUSQUET
March 15, 2007

TALLAHASSEE - Florida's three-decades-old ban on allowing gays to adopt children is under attack once again.

But the ban has powerful allies, including Gov. Charlie Crist and Sen. Ronda Storms of Brandon, who ran for office on a pledge to prevent gays from being foster parents.

Florida is one of three states, with Mississippi and Utah, that prohibits gays from adopting.

Some state lawmakers, backed by human rights and gay rights groups, want to allow gay foster parents to adopt children if a judge rules it's in the child's best interest or if a gay adult were the legal guardian of a child whose biological parents had died. the rest