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Missouri has no laws limiting the rights of individuals to adopt children based on the adoptive parents' LGBT status. [39] As of 2009, with respect to same-sex couples, as well as to second-parent adoption where the second parent is the same sex as the first parent, there had been no explicit prohibitions nor any court cases.
In Florida, a 1977 law prohibited adoption by homosexuals following the anti-gay Save Our Children campaign led by Anita Bryant. In November 2008, a state circuit court struck down the law through In re: Gill, a case involving a gay male couple raising two foster children placed with them in 2004 by state child welfare workers. [53]
(c) To the extent that provisions of the laws of this State, whether derived from statutes, administrative rules or regulations, court rules, governmental policies, common law, court decisions, or any other provisions or sources of law, including in equity, adopt, refer to, or rely upon in any manner, provisions of United States federal law ...
On April 18, 2013, the governor of Montana signed a bill repealing that state's sodomy law; it had previously been nullified by the Montana Supreme Court. [32] On April 23, 2014, the governor of Virginia signed a bill repealing that state's sodomy law. [33] Utah and Alabama repealed their sodomy laws in 2019 and Idaho did in 2022.
Adoption of marriage amendments over time. Prior to the Supreme Court's decision in Obergefell v.Hodges (2015), U.S. state constitutional amendments banning same-sex unions of several different types passed, banning legal recognition of same-sex unions in U.S. state constitutions, referred to by proponents as "defense of marriage amendments" or "marriage protection amendments."
Laws that affect LGBT people include, but are not limited to, the following: laws concerning the recognition of same-sex relationships, including same-sex marriage, civil unions, and domestic partnerships; laws concerning same-sex parenting, including same-sex adoption; anti-discrimination laws in employment, housing, education, public ...
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Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people in Texas have some protections in state law but may face legal and social challenges not faced by others. Same-sex sexual activity was decriminalized in Texas in 2003 by the Lawrence v.