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Russia is on its way to sharply limiting the adoption of children by people from countries that allow same-sex marriage.

LGBT groups are crying foul after Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) launched a campaign Friday aimed at finding homes for a thousand of the nearly 4,000 children in Virginia’s foster care system.

A bill that would cut off federal funding to adoption and foster care agencies that discriminate against gay and lesbian couples seeking to parent is making its way to Congress again with bipartisan support.

Portugal’s Parliament has passed a law allowing same-sex married couples to adopt their partners’ children, but lawmakers rejected legislation granting gay couples the same adoption rights as heterosexuals.

Florida Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and John Lewis (D-Ga.) are set to reintroduce today (May 7) a bill that would legalize adoptions by gay couples nationwide and remove many of the current restrictions to adopt or foster children.

Former GOP vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan has come out in support for gay adoption but still believes marriage should be between one man and one woman.

The head of a Russian parliamentary committee says the legislature is ready to prevent adoptions by foreign same-sex couples.

Former Mississippi Gov. Ronnie Musgrove says he now regrets signing a state law in 2000 that bans same-sex couples from adopting children.

Puerto Rico’s government is supporting an effort to overturn a ban on gay adoption in the U.S. island territory.

A lesbian whose adoption request was recently denied by Puerto Rico’s Supreme Court is appealing the ruling.