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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And of course, it's all about the "rights" of perverted adults. The rights of this child to enjoy a natural parentage do not exist. She was created purely to satisfy their vanity and advance their political agenda. Pukes.
I know a pair. real butch both of them... One works at my job.
they adopted from the 3rd world.
they took an unwanted child away from poverty and depravity, but at what cost.
as an individual act of charity they may have saved the child's life...and if the child can get over the stigma...she may have a good life.
But with the combined effort of untold thousands of these abominations....it is helping the left in the destruction of civilized society.
The natural law will order us dead. Simple.
Does that make the child a baster bastard???
Nah! There is no such thing as legislation from the bench! /SARC
Either that child has a natural father or the mother's name is Mary and Jesus has returned. I strongly doubt the second possibility.
. . . and brought her into financial comfort and depravity.
O.K. - I guess there's worse trade-offs.
I know a gay couple who own and work in a beauty salon. They adopted twin girls from an abusive, dysfunctional home who have multiple learning and behavioral disorders. I think they are doing O.K. The girls always have the BEST hair-do's!!! (I kid you not, those guys do them up every morning before school. They look like a million bucks.)
Get away from me.
I feel sorrier for the kid's future spouse. Imagine two mothers-in-law!
I'd rather live in a poor home with loving, Christian parents, than be stuck with two wealthy, gay women fighting against nature to prop up some ill-conceived notion of family.
One baby = one egg + one sperm. That makes them liars on the birth certificate.
LOL
So this child has no right to a father.
There should be laws to stop this. A child is entitled to a mother and a father.
Not a "parent and sex fetish partner."
there is an easy way to fix this.
No man can be a sperm donor without a child support obligation.
No man is allowed to make annonymous donations which the child can never find out.
Either that or your girlfriend would have to list all twelve of her boyfriends.
Now we have to pretend not to know how children are conceived.....
This is warped.
Fair is fair!
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