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Gay couple who fought for marriage equality in Alabama win their adoption rights
Cari Saercy and Kim McKean finally won the parenting rights they’ve been seeking since their son was born in 2005.
‘I think it’s just going to be an overwhelmingly happy experience for us all,’ Searcy, who is right now not the legal parent to son Khaya, said. ‘It’s a day that we’ve been waiting for a long time.’
Since the SCOTUS result which overturned the ban on gay marriage across the country came into affect the couple will legally be able to adopt their son and be recognised as a family.
The state of Alabama where they live initially blocked the adoption while marriage was defined as between a man and a woman – the couple had already married in California in 2008.
They unwittingly became the face of the marriage equality movement in Alabama when they filed a lawsuit to overturn the ban on gay marriage in the state.
Despite its success, they were still not allowed to have Saercy adopt Khaya as her legal son due to the marriage laws.
Now the law has changed, the couple looks forward to the adoption going through. Saercy announced on Facebook that July 24th will be the adoption day.
Saercy said: ‘I look forward to when this is all over and it’s no longer gay marriage or same-sex marriage, just marriage and our family is no longer considered a gay family or a same-sex family. We’re just considered a family.’
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