''With that stage set, it's clear that this 30-year-old ban that was based strictly on politics and hate has to fall before the science, before the facts.''

Robert Rosenwald, the ACLU attorney for Frank Martin Gill, a gay man who has been fostering two boys in Florida since 2004. The Circuit Court Judge found that there was no ''rational basis'' for the state to keep the children from being adopted by a gay individual. (US News & World Report)