Julie and Hillary Goodridge
Posted on 02/05/2009 10:46:32 AM PST by NYer
.- The lesbian couple whose legal case led the Supreme Court of Massachusetts to impose same-sex “marriage” on the state has filed for divorce.
Julie and Hillary Goodridge were among seven homosexual couples whose lawsuit Goodridge vs. Department of Public Health led Massachusetts to become the first U.S. state to recognize same-sex “marriage.”
The two were “married” on May 17, 2004 after a court ruling in their favor.
In 2006, the couple announced that they were separating, Fox News reports.
State recognition of same-sex couples has prompted many legal battles and many more are expected if more such laws are passed.
In November, the Becket Fund released a study titled “Same-Sex Marriage and State Anti-Discrimination Laws” which claimed the legal recognition of same-sex marriage could affect over 350 separate state anti-discrimination laws and could render objectors to same-sex marriage vulnerable to lawsuits.
Last week, in a case that has seen several reversals, a Vermont judge denied primary custody of a girl to the former partner of an ex-lesbian woman. Virginian Lisa Miller, the girl’s biological mother, has been in a custody fight with ex-partner Janet Jenkins of Vermont.
Though Judge William Cohen did not give Jenkins primary custody, he allowed to her extended visits including five weeks in the summer, CBN News reports.
Miller has accused Jenkins of abusing her during their relationship and claims that her daughter, Isabella, is traumatized by her visits with Jenkins.
She claims Isabella has spoken of killing herself after the visits and was required to bathe naked with Jenkins. Miller’s attorneys claim they have witnesses supporting such allegations, but the court has not scheduled a hearing on the issue, LifeSiteNews.com reports.
Miller is being represented by the group Liberty Counsel. Mat Staver, founder of the organization, lamented the extended visit periods.
"[Five weeks is] a long time to have a child separated from any parent, let alone have a child put in an activist lesbian household that has an agenda to ultimately brainwash this child," he said, according to CNB News. "Right now we're working on moving forward in the courts of Virginia."
Staver said Jenkins has tried in the past to promote the homosexual lifestyle by reading Isabella books about having "two mommies."
ROTFLMAO!
As I’ve always said, if gays want to experience the wonder and joy of divorce, who am I to say no?
Just don’t call it marriage, it isn’t.
These activists are like seagulls .... swoop in, eat everything in sight, crap all over the place, make a helluva lot of noise and then fly off leaving the mess behind.
In this respect, homosexuals and heterosexuals have dual responsibility in denigrating the institution of marriage.
Marriage was meant to be between one man and one woman ... for life.
SnakeDoc
So, they are splitting the carpet.
The point of same sex “marriage” is not to give homos any “rights”,
it’s to denigrate marriage and further destroy the traditional family.
Thats not the goal of the gay rights crowd, Mr B. Their goal is unattainable, making their freakish sexual desires ‘acceptable’ to one and all.
They don’t want to ‘destroy the traditional family’ they want to be accepted AS a ‘traditional family’.
It will never work, because it doesn’t work that way in nature.
Well, they can save all the drama. They were never married in the first place. Therefore, the divorce will be as big a sham as the wedding.
After their very public wedding, they want the divorce proceedings impounded. Wonder if there was a litte domestic violence involved.
Their goal, of course, has zero to do with homo marriage, and everything to destroying hetero marriage.
This is more evidence of the same.
Divorced???
GNS.
It was all posturing anyway.
She didn’t want to wake up at the crack of Dawn anymore.
Mrs and Mrs Goodridge on their .......*cough*......."wedding" day, along with the rainbow reverend from the Unitarian Church who officiated.
A good time was had by all.
Anyone who has spent any time in the gay community will know that this is the rule, not the exception.
There’s very little concept of fidelity in gay relationships. I’ve seen very few of them make it for more than a few months. Many have had well over 1,000 sexual partners. I’m not exaggerating that, either. Back when I would go out to gay bars with a gay roommate of mine, I’d routinely have 5 or 6 guys ask me to go home with them. It’s “normal” in that community.
Promiscuity is rampant, though not quite to that degree, in the lesbian community, as well.
There’s just no foundation for a real relationship.
I know. Once you realize the so called ‘gay lifestyle’ is nothing more than two self loathing people playing house it all falls into place.
One of them might try using a defense analogous to the one Henry VIII tried to use in similar circumstances without success.
Horny Henry denigrates marriage with arguments as silly as the Lubed Lesbians’:
If you will recall, Henry first petitioned Rome, demanding that the Church sanction a marriage to his new sex-partner, who happened to be his dead brother’s widow (which was biblically and canonically prohibited). Under political pressure, Henry’s weak arguments nevertheless succeeded and Rome reluctantly sanctioned the marriage.
Horny, Unhappy Henry of the childless and accursed faux marriage demands an official declaration that it was never a real marriage (the precise canonical definition of an anullment):
Henry realized that his new faux “union” was not really a marriage at all (and by the way, he now had a new concubine that he wished to marry), so he then petitioned Rome again, this time seeking an anullment arguing that Rome had no right to grant his previous petition to marry because the Church sanctioned evil when it gave in to his demand that he be permitted to marry his brother’s widow. The Church was not about to be used in this way and denigrate marriage even more by granting his request - and they told him to get stuffed.
Then Henry made himself pope of England, got “married” to his latest sex-partner, and began murdering Catholics who would publicly approve of his faux marriage.
Does any of this sound familiar?
Is that a mic and a candle, or are those sex toys next to them on the altar of ba’al?
I'm curious where you think the Bible prohibits a man marrying his brother's widow? As I recall, it was commanded of Jewish men that if their brother dies without an heir, he was to marry his brother's widow to provide offspring. I never read anything prohibiting that in the New Testament...
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