Bogotá, Colombia, May 25, 2012 / 11:09 am
An overwhelming majority of Colombians have voiced opposition to a ruling by the country’s Constitutional Court granting homosexuals the right to adopt.
According to the first online poll taken since the ruling by Noticias Caracol, 67 percent of respondents said they oppose the decision.
By 10:30 a.m. on May 24, some 9,000 votes had been taken in the poll. More than 7,000 respondents said they disagreed with allowing same-sex couples to adopt children.
Colombia’s Constitutional Court recently ruled that Charles Ellis Burr, a columnist with the New York Times, could legally adopt two children who already reside with him in New York. Burr, a practicing homosexual, had concealed his orientation from the adoption agency and country officials.