Take a look at some of the family developments so far week (via links to 365gay.com):
- In Idaho, the state Supreme Court heard the case of a father who lost custody of his two children because he's gay, and who was then denied visitation rights with his kids as long as he lived with his same-sex partner.
- In Washington state, an appeals court ordered a new trial for a woman denied co-parental rights for the little girl she helped raise.
- In Kansas, legislators rejected a proposed amendment to the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage. The state, however, already has a Defense of Marriage Act that limits marriage to a man and a woman.
- In Oklahoma, the governor signed legislation barring state recognition of adoptions by gay couples from out of state. Same-sex Oklahoma couples were already prevented from adopting. Apparently, this law could nullify parental rights and obligations if same-sex couples who jointly adopted a child move to the OK state, turning the child into an orphan.
All this while Massachusetts prepares, against its governor's
will, to officially recognize same-sex marriages at the state
level. It's quite a crazy quilt, but not too long ago some states
allowed women's suffrage while others didn't. And, for that matter,
slave and abolition states uncomfortably existed for nearly a
century in the same federal union. Which is simply to say that
justice is going to come at different times to different parts of
the nation, mixed with hefty doses of imbecilic, family-nullifying
reaction delivered by hypocritically "pro-family" demagogues. Get
used to it.