In 1997, Satinover was called by the State of Florida as an expert witness in Amer v. Johnson, which challenged Florida's law prohibiting adoption by gays and lesbians. "Surprisingly, Satinover said in his testimony that 'if two homosexuals wanted to adopt a child, I would have no objection to it if one of them was a man and one of them was a woman' 'the 'needs' of a child includes having [both a mother and a father'". He said that "The state of Florida wanted me to argue that the reason the ban should be upheld was because homosexuals made bad parents and I refused to do that." After several years of additional court cases relating to the Florida's anti-gay adoption ban, "" resulted in the ban being declared unconstitutional in 2010.