In Florida today, an appeals court upheld a lower-court decision ruling that Florida's statutory ban on gays and lesbians adopting children was unconstitutional. This will head up to the state supreme court, and I don't know how they'll rule, but I hope the ruling is upheld and the ban overturned. That would be good both for adopting parents and the children who will be adopted because there are more parents who can adopt them.
If you think this only affects gay and lesbian couples, you should know differently: Because Florida's family law does not follow a best interests of the child standard, couples in other states are sometimes told that Florida adoption is a complicated thing. I know a straight couple in another state who chose an international adoption in part because their lawyer warned them against adopting in Florida: a biological parent could seek to overturn the adoption on a number of grounds. (I don't know if that lawyer is correct about Florida law, but I would not be surprised if the caution is reasonable.)