Posted on 06/20/2004 3:43:27 PM PDT by RockDoc
The two Lexington gay men who made worldwide news by parenting quadruplets and then a fifth child have separated amid allegations of domestic violence that a judge dismissed, according to court records.
Lexington attorney Michael Meehan declined to comment yesterday on Fayette Circuit Family Court Judge Kim Bunnell's decision earlier this month to reject his petition for a domestic violence order against his former partner Thomas Dysarz.
Bunnell ruled on June 1 that there was "insufficient evidence" to issue a domestic violence order. Such an order would have put restrictions on Dysarz's interaction with Meehan. Court records show separate addresses for the men.
Meehan has custody of his biological children -- the quadruplets born to Meehan and surrogate mother Brooke Verity on July 26, 2002.
Dysarz, who has custody of his biological child, Brandon Lane Dysarz, born in January, declined to comment yesterday.
Brooke Verity, the surrogate mother who gave birth to all five children, could not be reached for comment.
Verity, who has three children of her own, initially agreed to conceive a child with Meehan because she thought he and Dysarz would be good parents, she has said.
Verity and the men have faced several challenges since deciding to have the babies.
In November 2002, anti-gay Kansas minister Fred Phelps traveled to Lexington to protest the quadruplets' baptism at the Cathedral of Christ the King.
In response to Phelps' protest, some Central Kentucky residents rallied around the men and launched a counter-demonstration, Rally for a Hate-Free Lexington.
Last year, Verity tried unsuccessfully in Jessamine County Circuit Court to terminate her parental rights to the quadruplets.
An attorney appointed by the court to represent the quadruplets said in a report that Verity should remain their legal mother.
The attorney's report said the babies need a mother and a father. It disagreed with Verity's decision that Meehan and Dysarz would be the quadruplets' parents.
Earlier this year, Verity gave birth to Dysarz's biological child. She said she entered into another in-vitro pregnancy so that all the children could be biological siblings.
An attorney appointed by the court to represent the quadruplets said in a report that Verity should remain their legal mother.
What a mom!
Is this Kerry's Michael Meehan?
What an ironic name.
gay men who made worldwide news by parenting quadruplets
HOMOSEXUAL perverts are not very gay - are they?
Same question occurred to me.
And this was all out of the goodness of her heart? Was there any cash or other compensation involved in the transaction?
If only President Bush would let them get married! /sarcasm
Homosexual Agenda Ping - Here's another one. Weird, weirder, and weirdest.
The problem is the human waste. The children and broken families left by the wayside while homosexuals are given the liberty to rampage in the vain effort to prove that they are "just folks". But it is deeper than that. Their stated agenda is to destroy the social fabric, the foundation of morality that has always (and I mean always) upheld human civilization.
Not the least, is the stupidity of the woman being a surrogate mother. Why were there quintuplets? That usually happens with medical interventions such as fertility drugs (or other means which I'm sure alert freepers will add). This whole situation stinks really really bad. What about the poor children? No one cares about them, they're just pawns, worse than slaves.
Let me and scripter know if you want on/off this pinglist.
What a mess!
Those poor, poor, kids. What a mess. Both their mother and father are nutcases.
It's all Reagan's fault.
I think statistics will bear out that Gay men do NOT stay together for long periods of time. There are exceptions. I happen to know a gay couple who have been together for over 40 years. However, lesbians DO stay together. It's interesting.
You can find Meehan taking comfort today at the local park restroom glory hole.
Since when did parenthood become a freak show? The kids should be removed from custody of all the biological misfits who call themselves the mom and dads, and sent to the other side of the country to be adopted by less selfish, sane people.
Verity is simply engaging in the slave trade with her own body and her progeny. That's sick and oughtn't be legal.
"Those poor, poor, kids. What a mess. Both their mother and father are nutcases."
Yes. And, notice what is missing-- the lack of that human passion for wanting a child, having a child. It's like gardening-- gardeners grow plants for the love of plants, the love of the process, not to have a garden to sit around in. They love the activity and the plants. One has children for the same reason, the love of making them, helping them to grow and bloom. These people seem all to have been activated by either a political agenda or selfishness.
Let's try to figure this one out ...
The so-called "surrogate mother," whom I gather actually is the mother, is the legal mother of (A) four children by one man, (B) a fifth child by another man, as well as (C) three other children.
The man who is the father of the four children is their primary caregiver, and I suppose in line to become his custodial parent.
Likewise, the man who is the father of the one child is his primary caregiver, and presumably in line to become their custodial parent.
This makes the woman the non-custodial parent of five children, as well as, I suppose, the custodial parent of the three others.
Being the non-custodial parent of five children, this woman will have rights of visitation and obligations of child support. In our brave new world of mix and match families, the calculation of child support is simply a formula based on the incomes of the parents, number of dependents, etc.
NOW ISN'T IT OBVIOUS what marriage is about? It's about the children.
Churches that celebrate the love of persons joining into partnerships, other than men marrying women, are saying that the happiness of the future persons to come into the world by reason of these marriages are of lesser concern.
This makes children into objects for the happiness of others.
But, children are not objects for the happiness of others. They are person, albeit vulnerable persons in need of guardianship.
While we cannot stop people from going and doing all kinds of fool things, we should avoid sanctifying foolishness.
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