{"id":364,"date":"2016-04-01T21:39:09","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T01:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bowditch.com\/diversityinclusionma\/?p=364"},"modified":"2023-04-12T11:26:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T15:26:00","slug":"mississippi-federal-court-ruling-a-win-for-same-sex-couples-hoping-to-adopt-but-state-continues-to-wrestle-with-lgbt-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bowditch.com\/diversityinclusionma\/2016\/04\/01\/mississippi-federal-court-ruling-a-win-for-same-sex-couples-hoping-to-adopt-but-state-continues-to-wrestle-with-lgbt-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi Federal Court Ruling a Win for Same-Sex Couples Hoping to Adopt, but State Continues to Wrestle with LGBT Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mississippi lawmakers banned adoptions by same-sex couples in 2000. Yesterday, Judge Daniel Jordan, of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, issued a preliminary injunction ruling in favor of same-sex couples and finding that Mississippi\u2019s ban on allowing same-sex couples to adopt \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.southernequality.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Judge-Jordan-III-opinion-in-Campaign-for-Southern-Equality-v.-Mississippi-Department-of-Human-Services-et-al.pdf?mc_cid=029609793d&amp;mc_eid=5c93479ed5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">violates the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0Judge Jordan directed John Davis, the executive director of the Department of Human Services, to stop enforcing the law. The Plaintiffs\u2019 attorney opined that &#8220;DHS will have a very, very hard time convincing a judge on appeal,&#8221; and that the ban is effectively over. Mississippi was the last state in the country to have a statutory ban on same-sex adoption.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The fight isn\u2019t over for Mississippi, though. By a 69-45 vote, Mississippi&#8217;s House of Representatives passed a Senate version of a so-called <a href=\"http:\/\/billstatus.ls.state.ms.us\/documents\/2016\/html\/HB\/1500-1599\/HB1523CS.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">religious freedom bill<\/a>.\u00a0Now, the bill goes to the Governor, Phil Bryant, to sign or veto. Governor Bryant and other Mississippi state officials have historically been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnewsnow.com\/story\/29416630\/gov-byrant-issues-statement-on-same-sex-marriage-ruling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">vocal in their opposition of same-sex marriage<\/a>. \u00a0The bill, if signed, would allow businesses and religious groups to deny members of the LGBT community services such as counseling and adoption support and protects those groups from punishment if their actions are &#8220;consistent with a sincerely held religious belief or moral conviction.&#8221; Despite yesterday\u2019s courtroom victory for same-sex couples, the legislative climate in Mississippi with respect to LGBT rights remains one to watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mississippi lawmakers banned adoptions by same-sex couples in 2000. Yesterday, Judge Daniel Jordan, of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, issued a preliminary injunction ruling in favor of same-sex couples and finding that Mississippi&rsquo;s ban on allowing same-sex couples to adopt &ldquo;violates the Equal Protection Clause&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mississippi Federal Court Ruling a Win for Same-Sex Couples Hoping to Adopt, but State Continues to Wrestle with LGBT Rights - The Case for Inclusion<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bowditch.com\/diversityinclusionma\/2016\/04\/01\/mississippi-federal-court-ruling-a-win-for-same-sex-couples-hoping-to-adopt-but-state-continues-to-wrestle-with-lgbt-rights\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mississippi Federal Court Ruling a Win for Same-Sex Couples Hoping to Adopt, but State Continues to Wrestle with LGBT Rights - The Case for Inclusion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mississippi lawmakers banned adoptions by same-sex couples in 2000. 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