Thought this was of interesting note...
In Texas several homosexual couples are seeking divorce, from marriages created in Massachusetts. Sometimes I think the comments are more interesting then the article itself.
"Marriage is unnatural, whether it's between straight-identified or gay-identified couples. I don't know why gays are so eager to emulate the errors of their straight counterparts."
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This just proves that gays and lesbians can screw up a marriage as bad as straight people. The last generation that marriage vows meant anything was my grandparents, the WW2, generation. Marriage has gotten to be little more than "going together". Thankfully, I'm very happy single.
According to the article Texas is willing to annul/void the marriage, as in situations like bigamy/spouses that are related to each other uncle/niece or brother/sister in which annulments usually occur. Can't grant a divorce, if according to Texas law no marriage ever occurred, so an annulment would be the proper course if the parties in the case truly wanted to get on with their lives. Massachusetts still has annulment laws.
This couple has brought a child into the mix. First, they planned for the child to be fatherless, by design. Now, they're breaking up the "mommies." The child will bear the brunt of the consequences to this ill-thought arrangement.
ReplyDeleteThey don't need a divorce or annullment to get on with their lives, their marriage is not recognized in most states, so they can simply ignore it, pretend it never happened.
ReplyDeleteJohn, But because both women are legal guardians of the child, they need to set up a parenting plan/child support if they're now separated. I'm sure even in an annulment they could do that. I'm assuming the child's birth certificate from Massachusetts has been amended that both women are the legal parents of the child. In Texas, the state wants to ensure that the child is cared for by both parents.
ReplyDeleteShould one mother be able to go into court for child support, against the other mother? We may want to go back to the case in Vermont, where two women had a civil union, they broke up. The primary parent moved out of state and recanted homosexual activity, but her former partner fought for parental rights over the child. In Vermont she won.
I actually sympathize in some sense. Women choose their mates, women can't simply ignore the father of their children even if they personally want nothing to do with him later. Once you're get pregnant, you really can't 'break up' because your forever connected to him through the child. This woman made a choice to deny her child the father, and replaced the father for her same-sex partner. They agreed at the time of conception to be a family unit, she just can't take it back.
Whatever, they don't need a divorce because there is no marriage, they are not married in Texas. Surely that aren't the first unmarried couple with kids to split up.
ReplyDeleteAre they just denying the marriage license or both the marriage and the birth certificate?
ReplyDeleteI assume the only way two women can be on the same birth certificate in Massachusetts, is if they were married while pregnant/birth. That was the deal back in 2005 with town clerks modifying birth certificates.
Back in July 2005 Frm. Gov. Mitt Romney was quoted stating...
"''It's not right on paper; it's not right in fact," he said. ''Every child has a right to a mother and a father.""
Biologically as fact they were never a couple with child, and they can't go after a sperm donor.