August 12, 2015
A http://www.southernequality.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/MS-Adoption-FINAL-Complaint.pdf">lawsuit to challenge Mississippi's same-sex couple adoption ban was filed in federal court by the http://www.southernequality.org/">Campaign for Southern Equality today. Mississippi is the only state in the nation that still bans gay couples from adopting children. The case, Campaign for Southern Equality v. Mississippi Department of Human Services, was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi on behalf of four same-sex couples. Mississippi has the highest proportion of same-sex couples raising biological, adopted or step children according to a Williams Institute http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/LGBT-Parenting.pdf">study from 2013.
Roberta Kaplan is the lead counsel in the case. Kaplan also represented the plaintiffs in the Campaign for Southern Equality v. Bryant case that began the push to http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2015/jul/08/scotus-ruled-marriagenot-discrimination/">legalize same-sex marriage in Mississippi. The Campaign for Southern Equality and Family Equality Council are representing the plaintiffs. According to a New York Times http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/08/13/us/mississippi-ban-on-adoptions-same-sex-couples-challenged.html?referrer=">article, the offices of the attorney general and the governor did not return calls for comment by Tuesday afternoon.
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