by Walter R Schumm
Research showing the risks of lesbian and gay parenting is ignored in the race to make a political case.
There is an inherent risk that anyone who has anything to say about gay male or lesbian parenting, no matter how cautious, will be misunderstood at best and vilified at worst. Nevertheless, the mission of a university professor includes seeking new ways to look at old issues, to resist all forms of intimidation, and to ensure that multiple sides of controversial issues are considered. Since there are more voices promoting the virtues of parenting by people defining themselves as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender (GLBT), I will present here an alternative, possibly minority, view that focuses on some of the possible risks associated with gay and lesbian parenting. Read more…
Finally, some good news from a family court:
A Wisconsin court has told a lesbian that legal adoption, not merely nurturing a child, determines parental rights.
A lesbian identified as Liz K. and her former partner Wendy M. adopted two children from Guatamala. The couple decided that since Liz was a practicing attorney and could add the children to her health insurance, she should be the legal adoptive parent.
But after the couple’s relationship ended, Liz’z former partner sued for parental rights, saying she had a relationship with the children also. Mat Staver of Liberty Counsel believes the court made the right decision in refusing to grant guardianship status to Wendy. Read more…
I don’t know why the MSM is so enthused about these “landmark gay custody cases,” which are supposedly “bringing us into the 21st century.” These cases, unfortunately, illustrate I am completely justified in my concerns about the direction of family law, under the tutelage of the gay lobby and the influence of same sex marriage. This is a case in which the courts are trying to assign parental rights to a person who is not related to the children, either through biology or adoption.
Let us call this person a “non-parent.” Read more…
Charlie Butts – OneNewsNow -
Several organizations are asking the North Carolina Supreme Court to review a lower-court decision permitting same-gender adoption.
The court ruled in a case involving two lesbians, one of whom is State Senator Julia Boseman (D-New Hanover). Boseman’s partner Melissa Jarrell had a baby through artificial insemination and permitted Boseman to adopt the child. Child custody became a factor when the couple split up and the natural mother wanted Boseman, her former partner, out of the picture. The North Carolina Court of Appeals granted custody to Boseman. Read more…
November 24th, 2009
Betsy
Posted in ”No Left Turns” by Julie Ponzi
Irony is a funny thing . . . and sometimes irony is unavoidable. For Progressives who seek to deny the realities of low nature rather than taking them into account on the journey toward a more natural (in the higher sense) and just world, the irony often is that they end up embracing the low tyranny of nature’s grip on man. They think they are overcoming nature by denying it when, in fact, they only reaffirm their powerlessness in the face of it. They decry the “Cretan-like” and “backward” thinking of conservatives when, in fact, it is their way of thinking that points backward . . . way backward.
Jennifer Roback Morse helps to illustrate this phenomenon by taking to task a “story” that ripped through international headlines last week as it claimed to demonstrate that lesbian couples make better parents than heterosexual couples. As Roback Morse argues, the “story” amounted to a single (and fuzzy) quote from a lone conference participant at a meeting of the British think tank Demos during which they were discussing this report (a report which, by the way, does not at any point address the question of the relative merits of lesbian parents). Read more…
Categories: Babies, Children, Gay and Lesbian, Homosexuality, Jennifer Roback Morse, Parenting, Ruth Institute, family Tags: child rearing, gay adoption, Jennifer Roback Morse, lesbian, Ruth Institute
By Trayce Hansen, Ph.D.
As mental health professionals, it’s our ethical and moral obligation to support policies that are in the best interest of those we serve, particularly those who are most vulnerable—namely, children. Same-sex marriage may be in the best interest of adult homosexuals who yearn for social and legal recognition of their unions, but it’s not in the best interest of children.
Proponents of same-sex marriage believe love is all children really need. Based on that supposition, they conclude it’s just as good for children to be raised by loving parents of the same sex, as by loving parents of the opposite sex. But that basic assumption—and all that flows from it—is naively simplistic and denies the complex nature and core needs of human beings. Read more…
Charlie Butts – OneNewsNow -
The Montana Supreme Court has granted parental rights to a non-parent.
For ten years, two women lived together in a lesbian relationship, during which one of them — Barbara Maniaci — solely adopted two children. But in 2006, Maniaci left her roommate and the homosexual lifestyle, and later married a man. Following the break-up, the former roommate sued for — and now has won — parental rights. Read more…
Charlie Butts – OneNewsNow -
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a law designating May 22 as “Harvey Milk Day” for public school students.
Harvey Milk, the first openly homosexual member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, was murdered in 1978 while in office. Randy Thomasson of SaveCalifornia.com tells OneNewsNow that in light of the governor’s signature on SB 572, schools in The Golden State are now a source for homosexual indoctrination. Read more…
September 30th, 2009
Betsy
Charlie Butts – OneNewsNow -
A Christian attorney suggests that a ruling Tuesday by the California Supreme Court legitimizes discrimination against individuals who claim their religious convictions prevent them from providing certain professional services.
A California lesbian has settled a lawsuit against doctors who refused — on the basis of their Christian faith — to provide her artificial insemination services. The case went to the California Supreme Court (see details from Associated Press below) which ruled that doctors, in spite of their faith, cannot violate state anti-discrimination laws that are designed, in part, to protect homosexuals. Read more…
September 25th, 2009
Betsy
KIEV, Ukraine – Elton John won’t be able to adopt a 14-month-old HIV-positive child from Ukraine because the pop star is too old and isn’t married, the government said Monday.
Adoption and gay rights advocates expressed regret about the determination by Family, Youth and Sports Minister Yuriy Pavlenko, while a children’s charity had reservations about John’s weekend announcement that he and his male partner, David Furnish, wanted to adopt the boy. Read more…
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