Florida republicans: gays have 'hijacked' state adoption bill...

The Florida senate sent Governor Rick Scott a bill Tuesday repealing the state’s 1977 ban on adoptions by gay parents that was struck down by an appeals court in 2010.

The ban, which was imposed at the height of a campaign by singer Anita Bryant that revoked a gay-rights ordinance in Miami, has been unenforceable since the court ruled against it. However, the language remained in the statute and some legislators objected to removing it.

The Republican-controlled legislature included the repeal language in a large package providing financial incentives for state employees adopting children.

“This bill does some very good things, but there is a poison pill in this bill that will not allow me to vote for it,” senator Alan Hays, a Republican, said.

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