Posted on 11/06/2015 5:27:22 AM PST by wagglebee
FOX CHAPEL, Pennsylvania, November 5, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – Three years ago, Nino Esposito adopted his adult gay lover, Roland Bosee, Jr., as his legal son in order to save money on future inheritance taxes. Now that homosexual "marriage" is legal in Pennsylvania, they went to court to dissolve that legal adoption so as to "wed."
Judge Lawrence J. O'Toole, of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, told the men that state law didn't give him the power to dissolve a legal adoption, unless there was fraud involved.
Now Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) is asking the Obama administration to strongarm the judge.
Sen. Casey wrote a letter asking U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch and the Obama White House to "issue guidance for courts across the country" in the matter. Casey hopes to set a national precedent for homosexuals, "so that gay couples who have previously entered into adoptions can annul them in order to receive marriage licenses."
Judge O'Toole noted in his ruling that the primary purpose of Esposito adopting Bosee was for money, to reduce the Pennsylvania inheritance tax payable upon the death of one of the men from 15% to 4%, "as the two men would now be in a parent-child relationship instead of a third party relationship."
Sen. Casey even told the president how to legalize the dissolving of gay adoptions. His letter said the administration's "guidance" could be based on decisions other judges have made that allow the dissolution of adoptions, and Casey noted a Bucks County judge who annulled a homosexual couple's adoption.
Gay activists showered praise on Casey. "I love Senator Casey for taking a position," LGBTQ lawyer Helen Casale said.
"The ACLU is hopeful that the Superior Court will apply established legal principles to allow annulment of adoptions by same-sex couples who that [sic] they can finally partake of their constitutional right to marry," Witold Walczak, the legal director of ACLU Pennsylvania, said.
Because adoption law is a state prerogative, the White House "may have to be creative and devise a [response] that's respectful of a court's prerogatives," Casey said.
The attorney general may file a "statement of interest," or the Obama administration may file a "friend of the court" brief. Either action would pressure judges by pointing out alleged constitutional protections at stake if homosexuals are not allowed to dissolve adoptions and lay out legal reasoning for dissolving gay adoptions.
The Obama administration has been taking the previously rare move of filing White House opinions in several cases, in an effort to "put the federal government on the record in cases that are at the forefront of civil rights law."
Bosee's and Esposito's case is on appeal before Pennsylvania's Superior Court.
Casey came out in 2013, publicly supporting same-sex "marriage." "It's the right thing to do," he said.
Imagine all this to avoid taxes, creeps
We’re not going to be able to vote our way out of this, much as that has become a civil religion of late (complete with a trinity of caesar, politician, and the holy ballot). However I’m fairly optimistic about the future. Once you get away from electoral politics, things are actually pretty good.
We should emphasize the good and righteous, and turn from the evil.
Democrat senator: Father and adopted son should be allowed to ‘marry’
Does anyone need anymore convincing that Liberalism is a mental illness. Here it is.
So true...
And many of those little old ladies STILL believe they are voting for his late father, Gov. Bob Casey.
I still can’t believe we “lost” the PA Supreme Court on Tuesday!
Said the horse. ;)
If Woody Allen and Morgan Freeman can marry their (step)daughters, why can’t some father “marry” their (step)son?
Hear, hear! Spot on!
The son is a complete, total repudiation of the father, with the same name. What a bitter irony.
Many of us saw this coming and spoke of it. Many on here just kept quiet, never did a damn thing to stop the homostapo. Some on here even said why does this bother you, why do you want to stop freedom. Granted that were only a couple of nuts and trolls
We were told to stop being stupid, stop making straw man arguments.
Well with this and the cross dressers and perverts thinking they should use bathrooms of the opposite sex then here it is.
Well done to those cowards who kept silent about marriage you have helped their cause more.
It is getting really mentally sick out there...
40 or 50 years ago these sick in the head wackos would be inside a padded room weaving baskets with cooked spaghetti.
We are well past the time to bring back the funny farms.
Perhaps we can use the camps FEMA built to hold folks with conservative thoughts as the new home for the needed laughing academies.
Nutjobs...... :-)
The top of a wedding cake is going to look like a square dance soon.
Gotta hand it to the unions. They saw their opening and they took it.
$15 mil. on a State Supreme Court race is unprecedented. Where I live few Republicans even bother to get on the ballot, so turnout on our side was low. They on the other hand rallied all the teachers behind this. Now you can be sure the Court will strike down any Conservative thing our legislature or the next Governor tries to do.
In their view we are the firebreak against Scott Walker-ism.
Sounds like a case of fraud to me.
I knew that incest was going to be next. The next one up will be polygamy and polyandry.
Then will begin the siege on the children.
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