Posted on 09/10/2012 3:33:58 PM PDT by neverdem
Can a child have three parents? If California State Senator Mark Leno has his way, children in California will be able to have three legal parents. Before we dismiss SB 1476 as another example of California Weird, we had best look into it more closely. After all, the bill has passed both houses of the California Assembly and is awaiting Governor Brown’s signature or veto.
I believe this development was inevitable, more inevitable in fact than the much-vaunted inevitability of gay marriage. Once we started trying to normalize parenting by same-sex couples and redefine marriage to remove the dual-gender requirement, we had to end up with triple-parenting.
A deeper look at the whole picture surrounding SB 1476 reveals that not only should the three-parent law fail, same-sex “marriage” should fail as well. As we will see, embedded in this bill is an appalling power-grab by the state, and a grotesque misrepresentation of the facts by the bill’s authors.
Why Normalizing Same-Sex Parenting Inevitably Led to Triple-Parenting
Let us state an obvious fact: a same-sex couple cannot have a child unless someone gives them one, or part of one, namely either an egg or a sperm. If two women, for instance, decide they want to have a baby, they must still involve a man in the process. They can use some form of artificial reproductive technology with sperm from a man who is unknown to them. Or, they can find an accommodating friend to have sex with one of them, or to donate his sperm.
The question is...
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It's already happened numerous times, mostly (according to this) in male/female pregnancies. This seems to be a murky area of the law and like you, I suspect it won't be long until sperm donors are appearing before a judge.
Of course. What if both lesbians want to be “moms” and get different sperm donors? To not include four parents in the law is denying them their most basic civil rights! We’re back to Jim Crow days!!!
“It’s just a matter of time before these folks are being sued for child support, I suspect.”
Actually, it’s already happened, and in at least one case, in Holland I think, the judge ruled a sperm donor was liable! This was a few years ago, and since then there were problems meeting demand, because donations understandably fell off. I believe a lot of places have started passing laws to shield donors from child support suits and protect their anonymity, because otherwise the whole system will break down.
It’s called MANAGE A TROIS parenting. It the latest from the gay mafia who the socialist democrats suck up to all the time.
You may be more correct than you think. I’ve read several times (can’t recall where offhand) that attorneys for pro-polygamy groups plan to introduce legislation making group marriage — both polygamy and polyandry — legal. With the precedent of legalized same-sex “marriage,” Katy bar the door!
Insanity
No, you can’t technically get another wife, but your kids could get another mom or another dad, without you getting divorced. I’m not sure how it would work, I guess they would have to adopt your kids without you giving up custody?
Maybe some capitalist can make money off this. Rent-A-Kid: for those folks who don’t want to give up their lives and be full-time parents, they could become “3rd” parents to a kid, and just take him one week a month. The real parents get a little vacation and some extra income to boot!
Surely there can be situations where 4 or more adults can be parents./sarc
Jeez, I thought it was the VILLAGE!! Now only 3 parents?
After I posted #25 I came across this FR polygamy thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2929144/posts
From the piece:
” We are replacing the natural pre-political concept of biological parenthood with an artificial, government-created concept of parenthood that is entirely socially constructed.”
Perhaps even an entire village.
>> “National Association of Marlon Brando Look Alikes”. <<
That would be the lesbian side of the Gay Nation.
Mark Leno is so light in the loafers he is flaming even in SF whuch he represents. The guy has been all gay rights all the time for I don’t know how long....
It’s only a matter of time before members of organized crime families all marry each other ... so they can’t be compelled to testify against their “associates” in criminal cases.
And who do you suppose is going to do this? Obama? Romney? They are twins who believe in gay marriage, gay adoption and other perversions. We need Santorum, Bachmann or Cain in order to stop this slide. We need principled social conservatives. Not liberal Republicans.
agree on all points.
One more step in preparing a willing pool of pleasure boys. Watch for the lowering of the age of consent. Young boys will be harvested!
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A companion piece to the polygamy article. Why only three, pray tell? Why any? Why not just make up junk as we go along? Why not just utterly renounce all truth and reason and give up human speech altogether and grunt and growl and howl?
I can see how, given the desire on the part of the Left to create same-sex “marriage” that becomes expedient.
However, the defenders of traditional marriage should realize that the need to provide a legitimate framework for three-parenthood has been with us since divorce and remarriage became the norm. It just wasn’t a priority for the elected sages back then.
Exactly. God's design for humanity is that a one man be married to one woman and a child have a mother and father. Homosexual relationships are the motivation behind this particular law, and the liberal social engineers are using them to break down the nuclear family and traditional Judeo-Christian values. When the family is destroyed, government inevitably has to step in. When a society abandons God, people tend to look to something for guidance, and that something is government. In communist North Korea, the leader and government is worshipped as opposed to God.
With this law specifically, I can see all sorts of problems. Why stop at 3 parents? Why not 4? For example, let's say the biological mother and biological father are each married to separate people. The step-father and step-mother each call themselves parents of the child as well. Why can't they be considered parents under this law? If so, what if they split with the bio parents? It gets messy and tricky.
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