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Utah asks Supreme Court for emergency stay in gay marriage case
The Denver Post
Posted: 07/16/2014 05:32:18 PM MDT17
Utah's attorney general on Wednesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court for an emergency stay of a federal appeals court's decision last month striking down the state's ban on same-sex marriages....
...The 10th Circuit already had stayed its decision in Kitchen vs. Herbert pending action by the Supreme Court. But in a separate decision in May, U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball gave Utah until July 21 to appeal his decision ordering Utah to recognize marriage licenses already issued and allow other gay couples to wed.
"Both the district court and a divided 10th Circuit have denied Applicants' requests for a full stay pending appeal, although the 10th Circuit has granted a temporary stay that will expire at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time on Monday," the Utah motion filed Wednesday says.
The emergency application was directed to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the same justice who stayed the earlier decision tossing Utah's gay-marriage ban....
...Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes also is asking Sotomayor to stay the order by Kimball.
"Absent a final decision by an appellate court of last resort declaring Utah's marriage laws unconstitutional, the democratically produced decisions of Utah's citizens should not be overturned based on the discretion of a single federal district judge unchecked by subsequent appellate review," the motion says.
Utah's filing indicates it soon will appeal the 10th Circuit decision to the U.S. Supreme Court.
"That petition will give this Court an opportunity to determine whether the 14th Amendment prohibits the people of a state from defining marriage as between one man and one woman," the motion says. At that point, Utah will honor whichever decision the high court makes, Reyes' motion states.
Attorney General John Suthers has asked the Colorado Supreme Court to prohibit county clerks across the state from issuing marriage licenses to gay couples pending a final resolution of the 10th Circuit decision. Utah asks Supreme Court for emergency stay in gay marriage case - The Denver Post
It is estimated there are between 143 million and 210 million orphans worldwide (recent UNICEF report.) The UNICEF orphan numbers DON’T include abandonment (millions of children) as well as sold and/or trafficked children. The current population of the United States is just a little over 300 million… to give you an idea of the enormity of the numbers…
According to data released in 2003 as many as eight million boys and girls around the world live in institutional care. Some studies have found that violence in residential institutions is six times higher than violence in foster care, and that children in group care are almost four times more likely to experience sexual abuse than children in family based care.
Every day 5,760 more children become orphans
Approximately 250,000 children are adopted annually, but…
Each year 14, 505, 000 children grow up as orphans and age out of the system by age sixteen
Each day 38,493 orphans age out
Every 2.2 seconds another orphan ages out with no family to belong to and no place to call home
Studies have shown that 10% – 15% of these children commit suicide before they reach age eighteen
These studies also show that 60% of the girls become prostitutes and 70% of the boys become hardened criminals
Another study reported that of the 15,000 orphans aging out of state-run institutions every year, 10% committed suicide, 5,000 were unemployed, 6,000 were homeless and 3,000 were in prison within three years…
An estimated 1.2 million children are trafficked every year; (THE STATE OF THE WORLD’S CHILDREN 2005)
2 million children, the majority of them girls, are sexually exploited in the multibillion-dollar commercial sex industry. (THE STATE OF THE WORLD’S CHILDREN 2005)
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:Oct. 13, 2005 (Washington) — An analysis of multiple studies of 500 households shows that rearing children in a same-sex household does not affect the their self-esteem, gender identity, or emotional health, a Boston researcher reported.
"Pediatricians need to recognize that there are variations in families and learn what kind of advice to give them to optimize the child's development," said Ellen Perrin, MD, professor of pediatrics at Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts.
The researcher and colleagues looked at data from 15 studies evaluating possible stigma, teasing, social isolation, adjustment, sexual orientation, and strengths. The findings were presented here at the American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference and Exhibition.
"The vast consensus of the studies is that children of same-sex parents do as well as children whose parents are heterosexual in every way," Dr. Perrin said. "In some ways, children of same-sex parents actually may have advantages over other family structures."
It has been estimated that one to six million children are being reared by committed lesbian or gay couples in this country. Some children were born to a heterosexual couple and later raised by a same-sex couple; others were placed in foster homes, were adopted, or conceived through a surrogate mother through artificial insemination.
Previous studies of same-sex parenting have been criticized for being biased, but Dr. Perrin said the research team was extremely careful to select only solid, evidence-based research for review.
Based on nine studies from 1981 to 1994 of 260 children, aged three to 11 years, reared by either heterosexual mothers or same sex-mothers after divorce, the researchers found there was no difference in intelligence of the children, type or prevalence of psychiatric disorders, self-esteem, well-being, peer relationships, or parental stress. "The children all had a similar emotional experiences with divorce," she said.
What they did find was that after divorce children being reared by lesbian mothers had more contact with fathers than children reared by divorced heterosexual mothers, Dr. Perrin said. "There are interesting suggestions that these children are more tolerant of differences."
A separate longitudinal study of 37 children of 27 divorced lesbian mothers and an equal number of children with divorced heterosexual mothers found no differences in behavior, adjustment, gender identity, and peer relationships.
"What is exciting about this study was that they followed the children 11 years later when they became adults," Dr. Perrin said. "But they still found no difference in adjustment, self-esteem, psychiatric or psychological problems, family relationships, or in identifying sexual orientation."
Four other large studies of more than 100 couples that evaluated children either born or adopted into families found that same-sex parents were more likely to have contact with extended family for social support as well as a more equal division of labor in the home. However, children of same-sex parents did experience some stigmatization.
"The researchers found no differences in the parents other than that lesbian couples share household and child care tasks more equitably," said Dr. Perrin. "The children of lesbian couples also appeared to be less aggressive, more nurturing to peers, more tolerant of diversity, and more androgynous," playing with toys for both boys and girls.
A further analysis of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health used randomly selected representative data from 44 adolescents aged 12 to 18 years. The study compared children living with two women in a "marriage-like" relationship to teenagers living with two heterosexual parents.
The study showed that the adolescents were similar in intrapersonal adjustments such as self-esteem, depression, and anxiety. They also were similar in school success, family relationships, and neighborhood integration, Dr. Perrin said.
"What is striking is that there are very consistent findings in these studies," she concluded. "But further study conducted in a long-term systematic manner in community samples needs to be conducted."
Dr. Perrin pointed out that "as pediatricians we have a lot of different kinds of roles. We need to be extremely careful about confidentiality with these families and assure them that their family constellation won't be broadcast. This will give us a better chance of learning more about the family and providing needed advice and discussing some of the issues."
"This is valuable information," Carol Berkowitz, MD, told Medscape. She is the immediate past president of the AAP and professor and executive vice chair in the Department of Pediatrics at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, California. "This subject evokes a lot of emotions that have influenced some studies. Some studies in the past were weighted based on nothing more than their own views."
The value of this presentation is these are all evidence-based studies, Dr. Berkowitz said, adding this information will help pediatricians in their practices and for setting policy.
AAP 2005 National Conference and Exhibition: Concurrent Seminar F340. Presented Oct. 10, 2005.
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"Marriage means 1st-Tier adoption priveleges of orphaned kids. Harvey Milk sodomized a minor orphaned teen, among many others like him, while officiating as his father. Gays worship Harvey Milk. This presents a problem. Utah v Harvey Milk should be an interesting case.. >Federal and State laws require you report suspected or potential child endangerment."
Certainly there are great laws meant to protect children, as obviously should be. QUESTION: But this brings up a question due to your signature regarding Harvey Milk. Is that why the United States Postal Service has dedicated a brand new Postage Stamp to Harvey Milk? It's out now you know and available for purchase. I've heard of the controversies surrounding this matter however, the bottom line is that the USPS still went ahead and issued the stamp in honor of Mr. Milk. They obviously had to do their research on this matter before taking such action and still thought enough about him such as to dedicate a new postage stamp to Mr. Milk. If there had been something terribly wrong or questionable with his history many believe they would not have taken that position and would have certainly refrained from that action such as to issue a stamp in his honor.
https://about.usps.com/news/national-releases/2014/pr14_026.htm
Gay Rights Activist Harvey Milk Honored With Postage Stamp - ABC News
laughable, to say the very least.Does one have to mail anything at all to be wise about these things?Silhouette;9457102]
"Marriage means 1st-Tier adoption priveleges of orphaned kids. Harvey Milk sodomized a minor orphaned teen, among many others like him, while officiating as his father. Gays worship Harvey Milk. This presents a problem. Utah v Harvey Milk should be an interesting case.. >Federal and State laws require you report suspected or potential child endangerment."
Certainly there are great laws meant to protect children, as obviously should be. QUESTION: But this brings up a question due to your signature regarding Harvey Milk. Is that why the United States Postal Service has dedicated a brand new Postage Stamp to Harvey Milk? It's out now you know and available for purchase. I've heard of the controversies surrounding this matter however, the bottom line is that the USPS still went ahead and issued the stamp in honor of Mr. Milk. They obviously had to do their research on this matter before taking such action and still thought enough about him such as to dedicate a new postage stamp to Mr. Milk. If there had been something terribly wrong or questionable with his history many believe they would not have taken that position and would have certainly refrained from that action such as to issue a stamp in his honor.
https://about.usps.com/news/national-releases/2014/pr14_026.htm
Gay Rights Activist Harvey Milk Honored With Postage Stamp - ABC News
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