In re the Adoption of Robert Paul P.

Having concluded in People v

Onofre (51 NY2d 476, 490) that government interference with a private consensual homosexual relationship was unconstitutional because it would not “do anything other than restrict individual conduct and impose a concept of private morality chosen by the State”, the court now inconsistently refuses to “permit the employment of adoption as the legal formalization of an adult relationship between sexual partners under the guise of parent and child.” (Majority opn, at p 236.)

*240The history and background of the adoption laws is sufficiently spelled out by Justice Sidney…