Gay Adoption is OK, says European Court of Human Rights
The European Court of Human Rights has overruled a French court and stated that adoption by single, gay individuals is legal in the European Union:
In a 10-7 vote, the Strasbourg-based court ruled Tuesday that a plaintiff identified only as Emmanuelle B. had been the victim of illegal discrimination when successive French authorities denied her request to adopt a child in 1998. The court faulted the French courts for citing "the lack of a paternal referent in the household", and said the woman's homosexuality had been "if not explicit, at least implicit" in France's rejection of her adoption request. The Court judged France had violated the European Convention on Human Rights — to which France and the other 46 Council of Europe members are signatories — by failing to assess adoption by a lesbian the same way it would a single heterosexual.
This decision means that it is no longer legal in the EU to discriminate between gay and straight individuals in regards to adoption applications; however, the decision does not apply to couples, so gay couples can still be denied adoption.
Baby steps.
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u know. thats kinda funny. you'd think that gay couple's would get the right before single gay's would
Well, the decision rendered was on a case involving a single individual, therefore the court's decision was limited by the scope of the case.
They can't legally issue a decision regarding couples if a case about a couple is not before them.