The Miami Herald has this report:
Last month, a Monroe Circuit judge became only the second judge in Florida history to allow a gay man or lesbian to adopt a child.
Smith’s may be a pyrrhic victory. Though Circuit Judge David John Audlin, Jr.’s order will stand, it likely will hold little sway over future cases, scholars say. Moreover, the state attorney general’s office will not appeal the order, meaning it will never be reviewed by a higher court . . .
In a strongly worded 67-page order signed Aug. 29, Audlin wrote that Florida’s 1977 gay adoption ban arose out of ”unveiled expressions of bigotry” when the state was experiencing a severe backlash to demands for civil rights by gay people in Miami . . .
