Alabama May Ban Gay Adoption

(Montgomery, Alabama) Legislation has been filed in the Alabama legislature that would bar gays and lesbians from adopting children.

The bill sponsored by Sen. Hank Erwin Jr. (R-Montevallo) would make it illegal for a person who is gay to adopt a minor.

The state already bars same-sex couples from adopting under its Marriage Protection Act. [...]

The state is also looking at a bill that would ban gay speech from any institution which receives state money. (source)

Banning speech. Doesn’t that violate the First Amendment to the Constitution?

U.S. Constitution: First Amendment
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

It’s hard for me to understand all of this hatred. It’s as if they wanted an excuse to pass all of this nasty legislation against us, and they saw that with gay marriage. But I’ll tell you this. Everything has a time and place. The legislation these state are passing will not stand. They will eventually be found unconstitutional based on the fourteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution:

Amendment XIV - Section 1
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

And, it only takes one ruling against what the states are doing with regards to the state constitutional amendments against full equality for gay couples. Just one, and they will all be gone. I’d bet my soul on it. I may not live to see it, but it will happen.