Cobb: Mommy, Mommy

August 23, 2005

Mommy, Mommy

Walking the chalkline I expect, California seems to be doing the right thing. Who can say if they are for the right reasons? The WaPo reports:

The state's custody and child support laws that hold absent parents accountable also apply to estranged gay and lesbian couples who used reproductive science to conceive, the high court ruled Monday.

Being a legal parent "brings with it the benefits as well as the responsibilities," said Justice Joyce Kennard.

The decision comes a month after the justices ruled that a California domestic partner law grants gays and lesbians who register with the state many of the same rights as married couples, but does not allow them to marry.

It makes for a rather disturbing test case, considering that one of the women had a kind of strange pre-nup.

Lower courts and dissenting justices noted the woman, K.M., voluntarily signed a document declaring her intention not to become a parent of any resulting children, and should not be granted parental status.

So let's get this straight. One of the members of this lesbian couple said, hey I love you but we ain't raising no babies together, and tried to contractually wiggle her way out of the responsibilities of parenthood even though she went throught the trouble to be an egg donor. She was busted by the state. The state did the right thing by the child, despite the fact that the poor baby has at least one asshole of a parent.

I'm not saying this is typical, I'm saying this is real. So let's hear the common sense reaction. Should these people be married?

No.

Posted by mbowen at August 23, 2005 09:53 AM

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Oddly enough this only advance the cause Gay marriage rights. An argument can now be made that if gay couples with children are expected to have the same responsibilities as married hetero couples with children then Gay couples should, at least under the law be allowed to marry.

Posted by: BH at August 24, 2005 10:58 AM

Nope. It means that the law already allows them all the supposed 'rights' that they don't have from not being married, and that the political cause for gay marriage has little or no basis with regards to 'suppression'.

Posted by: Cobb at August 24, 2005 11:17 AM