TheProgressivePatriot
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I thought that this was quite interesting given the current anti LGBTQ environment instigated by the Trump Administration. While there have been some recent setbacks, this shows that there is still a path forward.
While this issue was previously decided in favor of Lesbian couples in a number of lower courts, this is the first case to reach SCOTUS. In declining to hear the case, they, in effect, allowed the Arizona State Supreme Court's ruling, granting the presumption of parenthood, to stand.
Another LGBT Rights Victory at the Supreme Court, This Time for Parental Rights
The U.S. Supreme Court today let stand an Arizona decision that recognized a woman as the legal parent of a child she and her same-sex spouse conceived through assisted reproduction.
This is not an issue that is unique to Arizona. Here is a related article:
Same-Sex Custody Battles Test the Definition of Parenthood
The Mississippi Supreme Court on Nov. 29 heard the case of a woman suing her former lesbian partner for parental rights.
However, I have heard this tripe too many times before....
There is NO evidence that biology, and having opposite sex parents is more important that having TWO LEGAL parents with all of the legal, financial and social benefits that goes with it.
While this issue was previously decided in favor of Lesbian couples in a number of lower courts, this is the first case to reach SCOTUS. In declining to hear the case, they, in effect, allowed the Arizona State Supreme Court's ruling, granting the presumption of parenthood, to stand.
Another LGBT Rights Victory at the Supreme Court, This Time for Parental Rights
The U.S. Supreme Court today let stand an Arizona decision that recognized a woman as the legal parent of a child she and her same-sex spouse conceived through assisted reproduction.
The high court declined to review the Arizona Supreme Court’s ruling in the case, issued last September, reports the National Center for Lesbian Rights, which along with the firm of Ropes & Gray represented the mother who sought to be recognized as a parent. The Arizona court had ruled, “It would be inconsistent with Obergefell [the U.S. Supreme Court’s marriage equality decision] to conclude that same-sex couples can legally marry but states can then deny them the same benefits of marriage afforded opposite-sex couples.”
“The U.S. Supreme Court has twice explained in Obergefell v. Hodges and Pavan v. Smith that the U.S. Constitution requires states to provide the exact same rights to same-sex spouses and different-sex spouses,” said NCLR family law director Catherine Sakimura in a press release. “States across the country should take careful note of this decision. Discrimination against married same-sex couples will not be tolerated.”https://www.advocate.com/marriage-eq...arental-rights
This is not an issue that is unique to Arizona. Here is a related article:
Same-Sex Custody Battles Test the Definition of Parenthood
The Mississippi Supreme Court on Nov. 29 heard the case of a woman suing her former lesbian partner for parental rights.
A steady stream of gay custody battles is working its way through the courts in the wake of the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court Obergefell decision legalizing same-sex marriage. More same-sex couples are using donor eggs and sperm, surrogacy, and in vitro fertilization to conceive children, but most state laws regarding parental rights and assisted reproductive technology are based on biological assumptions—granting full parental rights to a married husband and wife, but not to a wife and wife or husband and husband.
However, I have heard this tripe too many times before....
LGBT advocates argue the redefinition of marriage necessitates a redefinition of parenthood. But critics say these cases are further dissolving the link between biology and parenthood and pushing against what social science has continually shown: Children do best when raised by their biological mother and father who are committed to one another in marriage.
There is NO evidence that biology, and having opposite sex parents is more important that having TWO LEGAL parents with all of the legal, financial and social benefits that goes with it.
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