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Florida judge OKs 3-parent family: two lesbians and a homosexual man
Life Site News ^ | February 7, 2013 | THADDEUS BAKLINSKI

Posted on 02/08/2013 2:23:21 PM PST by NYer

MIAMI, February 8, 2013, (LifeSiteNews.com) - In what could become a landmark decision, a Florida judge has ruled that a 23-month-old girl can have three people listed on her birth certificate as her parents.

Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Antonio Marin approved a settlement between a lesbian couple, Maria Italiano and Cher Filippazzo, who were legally "married" in Connecticut, and Massimiliano Gerina, a homosexual who donated sperm for Italiano to become pregnant.

Under Florida law, a sperm donor for artificial insemination has no paternity rights.

However, Gerina claimed that in the verbal agreement he entered into with the lesbian couple when they asked him for his sperm thathe assumed he would be able to participate in the life of the child he fathered.

“They asked me,” Gerina told The Miami Herald. “I was flattered by it. I thought what a great opportunity for me to have a baby.”

The women, he claimed, “wanted a father for the baby, not just the sperm.”

Two weeks after being artificially inseminated with Gerina's sperm, Italiano learned she was pregnant. The lesbians planned that Filippazzo would adopt the baby and they would both raise the child under the designation of "parent 1" and "parent 2."

About seven months into her pregnancy, Gerina said the women called him and asked him to sign a contract relinquishing any rights to the child.

“When they gave me the paper to sign that I had to give up all my rights to the baby, I didn’t,” Gerina said.

Instead, Gerina hired a lawyer and filed a lawsuit claiming paternity rights.

“My papers said I would have parental rights, a visitation schedule,” Gerina said. “They hated it. They said this wasn’t what they wanted. I said, ‘Now that you’re already pregnant, you should have thought about that before.’ ”

“The paternity lawsuit was filed right after the birth of the child,” said Gerina's lawyer, Karyn J. Begin. Emma was born March 10, 2011.

A trial was set for January 31. However, a week before the hearing the lesbian couple and the homosexual father settled their dispute privately.

With Judge Marin's approval, Filippazzo has legally adopted Emma, and she, with birth mother Italiano, now have "sole parental responsibility" for the little girl.

Judge Marin ordered that the state recognize Gerina as the father and grant him twice-weekly visitation rights.

“We’re creating entirely new concepts of families," said Begin.

"If you have two women seeking to be listed as Parent One and Parent Two, that does not exclude listing a man as father,” she said. "There are three parties involved. I agree that makes the case unique."

The lesbian couple's lawyer, Kenneth Kaplan, said, "People have to understand, the case is really a second-parent adoption, meaning that there are not three equal parents.”

"There are three involved but there are two people who have sole parental responsibility," Kaplan said. "Under Florida law, they make all the decisions for the child. This is an adoption by two women, with him receiving certain rights."

“The mothers are in charge," said Gerina. "They are the parents, I’m just going to spend time with her.”


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: democrats; family; homofascism; homolinks; homosexual; homosexualadoption; homosexualagenda; homosexualparents; lesbian; moralabsolutes; parenthood; queer; queerparenting; ruling; threeparents
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1 posted on 02/08/2013 2:23:27 PM PST by NYer
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To: NYer

JESUS please come soon!!!!!


2 posted on 02/08/2013 2:24:41 PM PST by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier who has survived 24 months of Combat deployment.)
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To: netmilsmom; thefrankbaum; Tax-chick; GregB; saradippity; Berlin_Freeper; Litany; SumProVita; ...

Babies as chattel ... this is how society has degenerated. How tragic and sad for this child.


3 posted on 02/08/2013 2:24:51 PM PST by NYer ("Before I formed you in the womb I knew you." --Jeremiah 1:5)
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To: NYer

Don’t think that “species discrimination” or “age discrimination” (for children) is far behind.


4 posted on 02/08/2013 2:27:38 PM PST by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: NYer

In hand-basket to hell we go.


5 posted on 02/08/2013 2:27:42 PM PST by bicyclerepair (Zombies Eat Brains. Half of FL is safe.)
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To: SoldierDad
JESUS please come soon!!!!!
Amen!
6 posted on 02/08/2013 2:28:13 PM PST by mlizzy (If people spent an hour a week in Eucharistic adoration, abortion would be ended. --Mother Teresa)
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To: NYer

pretty soon you’ll be able to marry your own kids, while they are still kids.


7 posted on 02/08/2013 2:28:21 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: NYer

Dear God.


8 posted on 02/08/2013 2:30:50 PM PST by Wisconsinlady (The 2nd amendment is NOT about hunting-but protection from a tyrannical govt)
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To: SoldierDad

...or at least send a big hurricane to Miami!...........


9 posted on 02/08/2013 2:31:11 PM PST by Red Badger (Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
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To: NYer

Why dont they just marry the kid and maybe the whole state will implode on itself?


10 posted on 02/08/2013 2:31:26 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: GeronL

The way the courts are going, next it will be farm animals.


11 posted on 02/08/2013 2:34:12 PM PST by alice_in_bubbaland (When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes mandatory- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: alice_in_bubbaland

Or, my shoe. Soon it will be legal to marry my shoe. Or an orange juice can.

Freaks are on a roll now.


12 posted on 02/08/2013 2:36:29 PM PST by LibsRJerks
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To: NYer

I can barely imagine the difficulty this kid will have relating to her peers-she will be a walking case study of an emotionally screwed up child. And if her mother divorces her lesbian partner, does parent 3/father get to bid for custody? This kid was a pawn before she was even born...


13 posted on 02/08/2013 2:37:34 PM PST by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: GeronL
pretty soon you’ll be able to marry your own kids, while they are still kids....

Why just as kids? You are being discriminatory! The state will just have to reasonably regulate this a bit.. perhaps restrict such a marriage to be no earlier than the 2nd trimester.

14 posted on 02/08/2013 2:41:34 PM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: NYer
"Heather Has Two Mommies ... and a Daddy"
15 posted on 02/08/2013 2:42:30 PM PST by JustSayNoToNannies ("The Lord has removed His judgments against you" - Zep. 3:15)
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To: SoldierDad
JESUS please come soon!!!!!

Here's a thought to make you feel better. Imagine a scene, say 14-15 years from now. Emma comes into the kitchen where all three of her parents are sitting. Emma: "Mom, Dad, Mom. I have to tell you something. I think I'm straight."

16 posted on 02/08/2013 2:45:11 PM PST by MAexile (Bats left, votes right)
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To: NYer
What you mean they left out the Dog in this scam of a marriage?
17 posted on 02/08/2013 2:45:26 PM PST by bikerman (Gun control does nothing to stop gun violence. But then, Washington specializes in the art of doing)
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To: C210N

lol. Now, that is early


18 posted on 02/08/2013 2:46:07 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: MAexile

Do you think that might happen?

Emma is going to be brainwashed, desensitized and RECRUITED long before she hits 14


19 posted on 02/08/2013 2:50:31 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: alice_in_bubbaland; LibsRJerks
The way the courts are going, next it will be farm animals.

Back in 2005, a British woman "married" a dolphin, in Israel.

Fox News reported:

Dressed in a white dress, a veil and pink flowers in her hair, Tendler got down on one knee on the dock and gave Cindy a kiss. And a piece of herring.

"It's not a perverted thing. I do love this dolphin. He's the love of my life," she said yesterday, upon her return to London.Tendler, who said she imports clothes and promotes rock bands in England, has visited Israel several times a year since first meeting the dolphin.

When asked in the past if she had a boyfriend, she would always reply, "No. I'm going to end up with Cindy."
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The "wedding" took place in December 2005. In June 2006, Cindy died.


20 posted on 02/08/2013 2:50:51 PM PST by NYer ("Before I formed you in the womb I knew you." --Jeremiah 1:5)
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