first Colorado same-sex couple to adopt under a newly enacted state law

In the 1990s, Colorado attempted to yank all possibility of legal protections away from GLBT people. This week, the state welcomes its first same-sex adoptive parents.
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"People say, they need two parents. We say, they’ve got two parents," said Jeannie DiClementi, quoted in the Rocky Mountain News article that was posted yesterday.
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DiClementi and her partner Mary Ross are the first Colorado same-sex couple to adopt under a newly enacted state law that provides for second-parent adoption, which allows grandparents, aunts and uncles, and same-sex parents to adopt children.
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Said DiClementi, "This is a victory for children."
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The bill was signed into law last May by Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter, who said at that time, "This law gives children in a one-parent family a chance to grow up in a two-parent home." Continued the governor, "This law will give children a better chance to succeed."
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