Arizona Supreme Court rules both spouses in same-sex marriages have parental rights

12 News ^ | September 19 2017 | Bob Christie

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PHOENIX (AP) - The Arizona Supreme Court says a lesbian woman who is divorcing her spouse is entitled to parental rights under the U.S. Constitution even though a state law doesn't recognize those rights.

Tuesday's ruling says U.S. Supreme Court precedent requires same-sex couples be afforded the same "constellation of benefits" as straight couples.

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[TheBattman]

Yet another “right” invented out of thin air by a court set to actively write law itself.

[DAC21]

Well that never work very well for men in a normal heterosexual relationship. Once again special rights for the gays. What the little fascist wanted all along, and the dim-witted leftist who follow that insanity.

[Autonomous User]

Don’t see a problem. If the Faggorty of samesex marriage is leagle in the us.... This follows.

[headstamp 2]

A ruling on constellations.

[madprof98]

This is all just made up. And it is all evil. The greater the evil, the more justifications they pile on for it.

[Carl Vehse]

Chief Justice Scott Bales, Vice Chief Justice John Pelander, Justice Ann A. Scott Timmer, Justice Robert M. Brutinel, Justice Clint Bolick, and Justice John R. Lopez IV are all traitors to the United States of America. May they all be impeached, tried, convicted and removed from office, then indicted, tried, convicted and sentenced to publicly hang.

[AndyTheBear]

The ruling comes in a case involving artificial insemination. State law assumes the man in a marriage is the father of any child born during the marriage, but that law doesn't include women.

How long before a woman gets presumed to be a father outside of marriage and ends up forced to pay child support?

[Architect of Avalon]

It would be interesting if biologically unrelated lesbian ex-partners get more respect as parents in divorce than biological fathers do.

[raiderboy]

Homosexuality is an abomination to God and a child of a homosexual couple should be removed to foster care as being subjected to child abuse.

[dila813]

does this mean the non-biological mother’s rights trump the biological one?

[Gene Eric]

>> as straight couples.

How dare AP use the euphemism, straight, to describe the rest of us!

[grey_whiskers]

Jay Sekulow or some other high-powered attorney ought to sue on,equal protection grounds: when a woman divorces a woman, it is presumed that they will share joint custody, but when a *man* divorces a woman, it is presumed she will have primary custody...not to mention child support.
The putative justification might have been the tender years doctrine, with women taking care of their newborn, but with lesbians, at most, one of them is the mother: the other has no biological connection to the child, and often *neither* of them do. Why then does biological fatherhood only obligate a man to continue financial provisioning after his wife sunsets their marriage, while at the same time, he has even less rights to his own offspring, than a lesbian to the offspring with whom she has no blood relation at all?

[orionrising]

heh... I know a lesbian couple divorcing... the non biological parent is pisssseddd she is gonna have to pay child support.

[the_daug]

Err the homosexual couple will probably do better than the state.

[mindburglar]

The courts will just find some random dude and force him to pay child support.

[wbarmy]

If the actual mother becomes a Christian, leaves the relationship, should the partner, with no blood relation to the child, get the child to raise as her own?

That is where this might be going.

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“...the same “constellation of benefits” as straight couples.”

People ignore the fact that THOUSANDS of laws had to be radically changed or nullified by this decision, not just a handful. Sodomite activists were always crowing about the “gazzillion legal benefits” of marriage denied them supposedly because they couldn’t “marry,” hoping we wouldn’t notice that all of these laws would have to be altered wholesale with the change.

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“divorcing lesbians?”

Is this another example of the plethora of “loving gay couples” that we’ve been sold?