Same-Sex Adoption Ban Will Not Be Heard By Supreme Court

The U.S. Supreme Court will not consider if the Florida law forbidding same-sex adoption is constitutional. Refusing to review the case means the end of the legal challenge against the law.

An earlier decision by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals supported Florida's law against homosexual adoption. The Eleventh Circuit said that Florida's lawmakers made a correct policy judgment when they decided it is not in the interest of displaced children to be adopted by homosexuals.

Some think the court's decision will have nationwide ramifications when other states address the issue of same-sex adoption.