Adoption and Parent Rights New Hotbed Issue

In case you haven't noticed, more and more stories are popping up in the news not about the SCARY gay marriage topic, but about the more low lying issues of gay adoption and parental visitation rights, particularly of gay parents who are now in custody battles with their partners.

Just like straight couples, gay couples meet, fall in love, decide to have kids, and then sometimes fall out of love. Then the custody battles start.

This case in Utah is a prime example:

Utah Moves To Block Gay Parent Visitation Rights

Also, there is an ongoing case of a dissolved relationship between a lesbian couple has been battled back and forth between the Virginia and Vermont courts. Virginia has extreme laws forbidding recognition of gay relationships and the relationship (or lack thereof) of gay parents to their children. Vermont, where the couple had a civil union, on the other hand, recognized the validity of the relationship. Virginia claims it doesn't have to recognize another state's laws. What a mess when everyone is doing their own little thing!

For all the people who think a little paperwork at your local attorney can cure all, don't be fooled! The ones who have been cooking up these legal battles have been thinking this through for a long time. They're happy to see each state coming up with their own private solution. It wreaks legal and social havoc, plus they've had the opportunity to stack the courts their way so they are damn happy to get us in a courtroom.

Oh, no, we don't need no stinkin' marriage! Just give me the freakin' stack of paperwork and the court date. Believe me, it's already been set.