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Lesbian couple seeks R.I. divorce
AP via Yahoo ^

Posted on 10/09/2007 10:13:01 AM PDT by j_hig

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A lesbian couple married in Massachusetts should have the same right as heterosexual couples to divorce in their home state of Rhode Island, lawyers for the women told the state's highest court Tuesday.

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Cassandra Ormiston and Margaret Chambers were married in 2004 after same-sex marriage became legal in Massachusetts. Last year, the couple filed for divorce in Rhode Island.

Rhode Island law is silent on the legality of same-sex marriages.

If the women can't divorce in Rhode Island, their lawyers said the only legal avenue available to them would be for at least one to move to Massachusetts and live there long enough to obtain a divorce.

"It is an absolutely unfair burden," Ormiston said outside Rhode Island's Supreme Court. "It is a burden no one else is asked to bear, and it is something I will not do."

Lawyers for the women told the Supreme Court the only question to consider was whether Rhode Island could recognize a valid same-sex marriage from another state for the sole purpose of granting a divorce petition.

They stressed the case has no bearing on whether gay couples could get married in Rhode Island.

"You have a valid marriage in the state of Massachusetts," Louis Pulner, an attorney for Chambers, told the justices. "No one is asking the court to address the question of whether such marriages would be valid in Rhode Island."

In September 2006, a Massachusetts judge decided same-sex couples from Rhode Island could marry in Massachusetts because nothing in Rhode Island law specifically banned gay marriage. But the courts and the legislature in Rhode Island have not taken any action to recognize same-sex marriages performed in Massachusetts.

Attorney General Patrick Lynch earlier this year issued a nonbinding advisory opinion saying the state would recognize same-sex marriages performed in Massachusetts.

The justices did not indicate when they would rule.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Rhode Island
KEYWORDS: gaymarriage; homosexual; homosexualagenda; lesbian; samesexdivorce; samesexmarriage
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First they want us to recognize their marriage, then they want us to recognize their divorce... what next?!
1 posted on 10/09/2007 10:13:03 AM PDT by j_hig
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To: j_hig

Who gets the Birkenstocks?


2 posted on 10/09/2007 10:15:04 AM PDT by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Still Championship U (At least we didn't lose to Stanford))
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To: j_hig

Why even bother us in the first place? They wanted absolution for their sins, now they want absolution for their absolution.......


3 posted on 10/09/2007 10:16:08 AM PDT by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we have consensus.......)
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To: dfwgator

LSU sucks rocks..............


4 posted on 10/09/2007 10:16:36 AM PDT by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we have consensus.......)
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To: j_hig

Perhaps we have arrived at an answer:

Legalize Gay Marriage.

Pass a Constitutional Amendment Banning Divorce.


5 posted on 10/09/2007 10:16:53 AM PDT by trumandogz
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To: trumandogz

There’s alway Mexico.


6 posted on 10/09/2007 10:18:01 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: j_hig
Keep in mind that this is an isolated agenda and not a coordinated event..............(sarc)
7 posted on 10/09/2007 10:18:41 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple ( Seeking the truth here folks.)
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To: j_hig

Who gets the carpet?


8 posted on 10/09/2007 10:19:00 AM PDT by shankbear (Al-Qaeda grew while Monica blew)
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9 posted on 10/09/2007 10:19:18 AM PDT by traditional1 ( Fred Thompson-The ONLY electable Republican Candidate)
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To: j_hig

This wasn’t all a just a big “test case” was it . . . .? From “marriage” to divorce . . . ? . . . To see what the courts had to say. Was it?


10 posted on 10/09/2007 10:19:33 AM PDT by Bertha Fanation
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To: massgopguy
Sure, but if we ban Divorce for both Heterosexual and Homosexual marriage people would be far more careful before getting married.
11 posted on 10/09/2007 10:19:43 AM PDT by trumandogz
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To: dfwgator

“only legal avenue available to them would be for at least one to move to Massachusetts and live there long enough to obtain a divorce”. Oh well. There is some nice property for sale in Soma’Ville


12 posted on 10/09/2007 10:19:51 AM PDT by Holicheese (1-21-09 Hillary starts to destroy America!)
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To: dfwgator

LOL!


13 posted on 10/09/2007 10:20:04 AM PDT by Obadiah
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To: j_hig

SOunds like this was test case from the beginning.


14 posted on 10/09/2007 10:20:06 AM PDT by Bruinator
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To: dfwgator

I am sure they will not be fighting over the leg waxing kit!


15 posted on 10/09/2007 10:20:14 AM PDT by Holicheese (1-21-09 Hillary starts to destroy America!)
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To: j_hig

I bet they both feel just like they’ve had the rug pulled out from underneath them.


16 posted on 10/09/2007 10:20:23 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: shankbear
Who gets the carpet?

And the Indigo Girls CDs?

17 posted on 10/09/2007 10:21:37 AM PDT by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Still Championship U (At least we didn't lose to Stanford))
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To: dfwgator
One will get the Birkenstocks, the other will get the bumper sticker laden Subaru.
18 posted on 10/09/2007 10:22:02 AM PDT by Obadiah
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To: j_hig

‘Cassandra Ormiston and Margaret Chambers were married in 2004 after same-sex marriage became legal in Massachusetts. Last year, the couple filed for divorce in Rhode Island. ‘

Curious the article doesn’t mention on ‘what ground’ they are asking for a divorce.

Which indicated to me this is political, folks. Designed to further legitimize gay marriage.

Maybe I’m wrong about this, but thats the gut feeling.


19 posted on 10/09/2007 10:22:08 AM PDT by Badeye (Free Willie!)
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To: j_hig

Good Lord...


20 posted on 10/09/2007 10:22:32 AM PDT by LIConFem (Thompson 2008. Lifetime ACU Rating: 86 -- Hunter 2008 (VP) Lifetime ACU Rating: 92)
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