Posted on 11/16/2006 4:15:11 PM PST by kiriath_jearim
TRENTON, Nov. 15 — A lesbian couple in South Jersey won court approval this week to have both of their names listed as parents on the birth certificate of their newborn, and the attorney general’s office said it will no longer oppose such applications.
The decision, in Family Court in Burlington County, stems from an Oct. 25 ruling by the New Jersey Supreme Court holding that same-sex couples are entitled to the same legal rights and protections as heterosexual couples. The court gave the Legislature 180 days either to bring gay couples within the state’s marriage laws or establish a parallel system of civil unions.
“This couple was treated exactly the same way as a married couple under the law of New Jersey,” said Stephen Hyland, the lawyer for the women. “So no matter what New Jersey chooses to do legislatively, the couples have the same rights.”
As the Legislature debates in the next six months, “you’ll see these life-and-death issues,” said Suzanne B. Goldberg, a Columbia University law professor. “Birth and death will not stop while the Legislature is working. State agencies and courts will find themselves wrestling with the issues.”
The baby was born on Tuesday one day after an agreement on the names was reached in a closed Family Court proceeding.
The Burlington County couple, who asked not to be identified, their lawyer said, because they did not want to draw attention to themselves, now do not have to go through an adoption proceeding to establish full parental rights for both. These rights include inheritance, custody and visitation.
In a previous case, in May 2005, the Superior Court in Essex County ruled that a lesbian couple was entitled to have the names of both women listed on their baby’s birth certificate.
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Imagine the hell that this kid will go through if he/she ever dares to bring home a member of the opposite sex to meet mom and mom.
Well, isn't that just precious!
I have enough trouble with one nagging mother but to the second power? God Bless this child.
Oh no!!! Heather REALLY DOES have TWO mommies!!
...and the kid's name is T. Baster?
Gay people are always trying to "normalize" what isn't normal.
This is beyond stupid. What happens with
these children, whebn they need to tack
back their biological liniage for
medical reasons?
And in cases such as these, i can see how
it would be a *more* prevalent need than
in the strictly hetero population.
Did you hear about the recent findings
that it's not just the mothers
biological clock that is involved
in the birthing of healthy children?
But that the fathers age and health
have a corralation to the number of
birth defects, onzset of Alzheimers
and other such risks, that the
father/sperm producer, "contribute"
to a babys makeup. that a doctor,
if not now, but in the future, is
*going* to need to about???
Narcissistic and hedonistic
irresponsability and selfish
gratification to the moast disgusting
degree.
Gay Pride!
Since it is impossible for two women to have a child, this birth certificate is fraudulent. Of course, America is into fraud these days so I guess it don't mean nothin'. That is what all these so-called "gay marriages" are about. Destroying normal society and it's laws and turning America into another European-style freak show. Nothing more.
By the way, can we assume this was the turkey baster style conception?
Poor baby.
More and more, children are pawns in personal and political agendas.
since it's legal, it must be right .... NOT!
The activist courts seek to send our Constitution to Hell in a handbasket.
It has all been about subverting the system. Our legal system is a joke. So long, it was good while it lasted.
This is child abuse--pure and simple.
The court seems to have forgotten to mention the other option: Tell the court to go to hell.
No court has the right to pass a law or redefine an existing one. It is time to correct this little misunderstanding. The legislature should pass a resolution affirming the primacy of the duly adopted laws on the books over judicial invention. Or it could do nothing, and announce that it will do nothing.
Let the justices enforce their ruling.
On Thanksgiving we know where to find the the turkey baster.
And it's never never going to happen. It is impossible. It's an oxymoron with emphasis on the moron.
Whatever they did to conceive, they will never know the love and difficulty of being a real couple in a real relationship. They are both twisted, selfish jerks cheating a kid out of a father right from the very start.
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