Welcome to your Thursday open thread. Are we getting snow again? I keep hearing rumors of snow. Haven’t we had enough this week?
Here is some great news. The gay couple that was responsible for getting Florida’s ban on adoption by same-sex adoptions have finally become parents.
A gay Miami man has officially adopted two brothers after he successfully fought to overturn Florida’s three-decade old ban on gay adoptions.
Martin Gill and his partner were the boys’ foster parents for six years before the adoption was finalized Wednesday.
Gill and the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against the state, calling the ban unconstitutional. The 3rd District Court of Appeal agreed in a ruling last year. The state decided not to appeal.
Gill says he is thrilled they are “officially a family in the eyes of the law.”
I love happy endings! Congratulations to Martin Gill and his family.
If you loved the “Filibernie,” you’ll love the Filibernie in book form.. Coming soon to a bookstore near you!
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is publishing his December filibuster of a tax cuts bill as a book in February, his publisher said Wednesday.
Nation Books said that it would publish the text of Sanders’s eight-and-a-half hour speech against legislation extending expiring tax cuts for two years in book form.
The book, “THE SPEECH: A Historic Filibuster on Corporate Greed and the Decline of Our Middle Class” will be available as an e-book on Jan. 28, with a book release the next month.
I hope it sells well and gets to some people who need to read it – like the whole corporate media.