Fundies: Homosexual "parents" have access again to Michigan courts

[marmar]

:wtf: How dare teh gays receive use of the legal system their taxes help pay for..... :wow:




from the "fair and balanced" OneNewsNow service of the American Family Assn.:



Michigan courts hear lesbian custody trial
Charlie Butts and Marty Cooper - OneNewsNow - 2/27/2009 7:40:00 AM


Homosexual "parents" have access again to Michigan courts.

The Associated Press reports that even though Michigan does not "formally recognize gay relationships," the courts will administer a custody dispute between lesbian "parents" Diane Giancaspro and Lisa Congleton, who adopted children from China in 2003 when they lived in Illinois. They then moved to Michigan, separated in 2007, and began the custody battle.

The judges overseeing the trial contend what matters is not the former partners' relationship with each other, but instead their relationship with their children. Gary Glenn, president of the American Family Association of Michigan, picks up the story.

"The state court of appeals has said that Michigan will recognize an adoption relationship between the lesbian couple from the state of Illinois who adopted several children while living in Illinois -- which does recognize homosexual adoption -- then moved to Michigan and separated," he notes.

Calling for a ballot measure to ban homosexual adoptions in Michigan, Glenn believes the ruling goes against the grain in Michigan. "I think the simplest response to this kind of court ruling, which is a concern, is simply to give Michigan voters an opportunity to prohibit homosexual adoption as Florida does, as Arkansas voters voted to do just this past November, as Mississippi and Utah have on their statute books," he concludes.

Even with a successful petition drive, Glenn says 2010 is the earliest the issue could be on the ballot.


http://www.onenewsnow.com/Legal/Default.aspx?id=428268

[T Wolf]

1. Florida, Arkansas, Mississippi and Utah. Enough said. nt

[Massacure]

2. Article IV, Section 1: Full Faith and Credit

A ballot measure wouldn't make one iota of difference.

[marmar]

3. Gary Glenn is an irrelevant POS. He'd collect about 10 signatures for his ballot measure.....

...... 5 outside of his inbred family.

[gratuitous]

4. Puzzling

So, what solution does the AFA have to offer? Chinese kids, adopted six years ago by this couple. Who, then, should get custody? The Chinese parents (if they're alive) whose parental rights have been terminated? Should the kids become wards of the state, bouncing around the foster care system in Michigan? I realize that these dimwits don't recognize a universe of possibility where the best interests of the child doesn't include having a lesbian custodial parent, but are they seriously advocating that the children be taken away from both parents? How else do they propose to adjudicate this dispute if they're not going to recognize the legal standing of the parents?

[tanyev]

5. Good thing hetero couples who adopt never get divorced and have custody disputes.

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