Why did Rosie ODonnell opens her push for homosexual adoptions when she came out of the closet?”
From an article dated 2-27-2002: O’Donnell has taped an interview with Diane Sawyer to air as a two-hour show on ABC’s PrimeTime Thursday on March 14, to talk chiefly about the case of two gay men in Florida who face having a foster child they raised removed from their home. State law won’t let them adopt. O’Donnell also is a foster — and adoptive — mother. She told the club audience of parenting an emotionally damaged 3-year-old girl. Then, “Come to find out, in order to adopt this child, I would have to perjure myself, would have to sign a document that says in the state of Florida that I am not bisexual or homosexual. The fact that I was unwilling to sign that document meant the child was removed from the house.” Before the show, O’Donnell told USA TODAY she chose to talk to Sawyer because she wanted an investigative piece on Florida’s ban on gay adoption.
When talk-show host and activist Rosie O’Donnell declares her homosexuality publicly for the first time on March 14’s “Primetime,” she will use the occasion to push for the abolition of laws that prevent homosexuals from adopting children in Florida. According to a transcript of the pre-taped interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer published on the Drudge Report, O’Donnell describes herself as “a really good mother” who has every right to parent a child as a homosexual, CNSNews.com reported March 14. “You know, it takes a lot for a gay person to become an adoptive parent,” said O’Donnell, who has a home in Miami Beach. “It takes a lot to become a foster parent…. And for the state of Florida to tell anyone who’s willing, capable and able to do that, that they’re unworthy, is wrong.” The talk show host also is pressing her case on a website produced by the ACLU Lesbian and Gay Rights Project, called
