Posted on 12/19/2005 6:55:12 AM PST by FerdieMurphy
Two outspoken lesbians became the first same-sex civil union in the United States are splitting up amid allegations of violent behavior. Carolyn Conrad, 35, asked a court in October to end her relationship with Kathleen Peterson, 46.
Conrad also obtained an order of protection against her former partner, claiming Peterson punched a hole in the wall during an argument and threatened to harm Conrad's friend. Conrad believes her former lover is capable of violent behavior and she needs protection to prevent further contact.
"All I want to say is that the civil union was a big source of pride for me, and now it's not," Peterson said.
The couple were together for five years when they were legally joined in Brattleboro minutes after Vermont's civil-union law took effect on July 1, 2000. Two years ago, the couple were offering relationship advice on a gay-rights website.
By the end of 2004, close to 8,000 same-sex civil unions were performed in Vermont. It's the first state to offer gay couples nearly all the rights and privileges of marriage. Of the 8,000 civil unions only 78 haved ended in legal separation. Civil unions do not end in divorce -- the process is called dissolution.
Bari Shamas, a member of the Vermont Freedom to Marry Task Force, told Associated Press that gay relationships are prone to the same difficulties as heterosexual marriages.
"There's no proof that our relationships are any better than heterosexual relationships," Shamas said.
They should cool off with a Ben & Jerry's.
How a perverted "union" was once a source of pride for one of them is just inexplicable.
Hey you wanted equality baby. Well you got it.
"An Uncivil Union"
This is insanely amusing! More to come? Anyone want to wage the GDP of a small island nation that this will get minimal if non-existent coverage by the MSM?
Probably started with a tongue lashing.
I guess we know which one is the alpha.
Fighting over the...It's not worth getting banned for this comment.
Its pretty obvious who the butch is in that relationship.
Coming to Pay per View near you....
D@mnit, my monitor is a mess now!
Why should heterosexuals have a monopoly on domestic violence?
"Probably started with a tongue lashing."
You owe me a keyboard. :0
As one poster said last week "If there are no men in the marriage, how does the judge know who to screw?"
No surprise here. Homosexual relationships are based on are based on spiritual lies and moral confusion to begin with.
Violence is a natural outgrowth of that.
JERRY SPRINGER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Go to your room.
May she suffer the favorite tool of the feminists, anger management.
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