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Mississippi was the only U.S. state to not have legal joint adoption rights for LGBT couples; the only other jurisdictions under U.S. sovereignty where this is the case are American Samoa and some Native American tribal nations. [75] Mississippi passed a state law in 2000 which explicitly prohibited same-sex couples from joint adoption.
The Texas Democratic Party added certain LGBT rights to the party's platform in 1980, [62] and included same-sex marriage rights in its 2012 platform, [63] becoming the first Democratic state party in the southern United States to do so.
On 24 November 2011, the Coahuila Supreme Court struck down the state's law barring same-sex couples from adopting, urging the state's legislature to amend the adoption law as soon as possible. [151] On 12 February 2014, the state's congress overwhelmingly approved the measure more than two years following the supreme court decision. [121]
In gratitude, lesbian couples may then search for ways to pay it forward, occasionally acting as gestational surrogates for gay men. “I know, as an LGBTQ+ person, that we face tremendous ...
Any clerk, justice of the peace or other administrator who declines to issue a license to a same-sex couple could face litigation or a fine.
The Texas Republican Party unveiled its official position on LGBTQ issues over the weekend, defining homosexuality as an "abnormal lifestyle choice" and also Texas GOP's new platform calls gay ...
V.L. v. E.L., 577 U.S. 404 (2016), is a case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States concerning the adoption rights of same-sex couples. [49] In 2007, a Georgia Superior Court granted adoption rights to V.L., the partner of E.L., the woman who gave birth to their three children.
Previously, the U.S. state of Texas had banned same-sex marriage both by statute since 1973 and in its State Constitution since 2005. On February 26, 2014, Judge Orlando Luis Garcia of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas found that Texas's ban on same-sex marriages was unconstitutional.