STUNNING TURNAROUND: Florida GOP state senators block anti-gay adoption legislation...

State Senator Don Gaetz, a Republican from the politically conservative Florida Panhandle, is not who LGBT activists would expect to be their prime defender, much less be the one to stymie an advance within his party and berate an anti-gay law as a throwback.

Yet it was Gaetz, the former Senate president, who marshaled votes from both parties Wednesday to kill legislation that was widely expected to pass.

“We don’t need to turn back the social clock in this state to 1977,” said Gaetz, pacing and gesturing for effect.

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