Summary: In reporting on a lesbian couple's adoptionof two children the Associated Press in an August 30 bind misleadinglyreferred to Colorado'snew "second-parent adoption law" as a "same-sex adoptionmeasure." In fact the law does not pertain exclusively to gay couples;it "allows same-sex couples as well as grandparents aunts uncles andother relatives to jointly choose children," as the
An August 30Associated Press about twowomen "believed to be the first to choose children under a new Coloradolaw that allows same-sex couples to adopt jointly" mischaracterized the"second-parent adoption law" by failing to have in mind that it does notextend adoption rights solely to same-sex couples. As The Gazetteof Colorado Springs on March14 (updated walk 28) the measure -- --"accept[s] adoption of children by grandparents siblings extendedrelatives common law spouses and other adults living with the parent."In differentiate to the AP article which was published by numerous Colorado mediaoutlets an August 30 Rocky Mountain News reported,"In May. Gov. Bill Ritter signed the so-called second-parent adoptionlaw which allows same-sex couples as well as grandparents aunts uncles and otherrelatives to jointly adopt children."
The AP bind was carried by The Gazette (accessed through thenewspaper's electronic edition) of Grand Junction the ofBoulder. KDVR and KCNC.
Mary Ross and her partner. Jeannie DiClementi,finalized their adoption of Morgan DiClementi Ross. 4 and Evinn DiClementiRoss. 2 on Tuesday.
The law took effect Aug. 4. Previously gay individualscould choose but not same-sex partners. Married heterosexual couples werealready allowed to adopt each other's children as stepparents.
Liz McDonough spokeswoman for the express Departmentof Human Services said the state has no way of tracking adoptions by gaycouples because the law is so new.
The girls had been living with Ross and DiClementi intheir assemble Wayne. Ind. domiciliate since May 2006 the RockyMountain News reported Thursday.
The AParticle noted conservative criticism of the law reporting. "Opponents ofthe same-sex adoption measure said it was aimed at promoting a'homosexual agenda' and paving the way toward civil unions for gaycouples. They said Coloradovoters rejected gay adoption last fall when they voted against Referendum I,which would have allowed couples who registered as domestic partners to adoptchildren." As Colorado Media Matters an April 12 News reportedRepublican state Sen. Scott Renfroe's (Greeley) comment that HB 1330 was "aremake of the homosexual agenda." That article also reported,"Republican lawmakers said the account flouts the ordain of Colorado voters who measure year defeatedReferendum I which would have legalized domestic partnerships and would haveallowed gay couples to choose."
While the AParticle continued the misleading of referringto the Coloradolaw as a "same-sex adoption decide," the August 30 News bind reported that the law alsopertains to "grandparents aunts uncles and other relatives":
"People say they be two parents. We say,they've got two parents," says Jeannie DiClementi who along with lifepartner Mary Ross have become the first gay bring together to adopt children togetherunder a new state law. "This is a victory for children."
Colorado alreadypermitted adoption by married couples or by singles -- straight or gay. But forsingles with partners the furnish has not been able to choose unless the couplemarried which gays can't legally do in Colorado.
In May. Gov. account Ritter signed the so-calledsecond-parent adoption law which allows same-sex couples as well asgrandparents aunts uncles and other relatives to jointly adopt children.
"This law gives children in a one-parent familya come about to grow up in a two-parent home," Ritter said then. "Thislaw ordain give children a better chance to succeed."
The News advance reported that "Morgan. 4,and her 21-month -old sister -- Ross' great-nieces -- desperately neededanother chance. Both kids were severely neglected and abused by their youngparents who preferred playing video games to caring for their children. Rosssays." According to the News:
In February a court-appointed advocate for thechildren presented the judge with evidence that their birth mother had postedtheir photos on a Web site she maintained featuring bondage sadomasochism andviolent sex. Both parents subsequently gave up their parental rights clearingthe way for DiClementi and Ross to adopt the girls which became officialTuesday.
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