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UK Couple Wins Back Right to Foster

From the Telegraph:

A couple who were rejected as foster parents after they refused to condone homosexuality have won their battle to apply to be carers.

Derby city council blocked an application from Eunice and Owen Johns to   provide respite care for under-10s after they admitted they could never tell   a child that being homosexual was acceptable.

However, the authority has backed down after the Johns, both devout   Christians, threatened to seek a judicial review.

The couple, who have four grown-up children of their own, were celebrating on   Sunday after learning by letter that they can resume the application process.

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UK Couple Told they are "Unsuitable" Foster Parents

From Daily Mail:

They are devoted foster parents with an unblemished record of caring for almost 20 vulnerable children.

But Eunice and Owen Johns have been forced to abandon their good work because they refuse to tell children as young as ten that homosexuality is an acceptable lifestyle.

To do so, they say, would go against their Christian beliefs.

The devastated couple withdrew an application to their council to continue as foster carers after being told they must condone homosexuality to adhere to gay rights laws.

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UK Foster Parents Win Right to Live their Beliefs

From Times Online:

Andrea Williams of Christian Concern For Our Nation said: “This is a significant step forward for Christian freedoms in that the Council has agreed not to force Mr and Mrs Matherick to act against their Christian beliefs. This should be of enormous encouragement to all Christians who want to take up the important role of caring for vulnerable children.”

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UK Christians Forced Out of Foster Care by Gay Agenda

From LifeSite:

By Hilary White
CHARD, UK, October 24, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Christian couple in Somerset, UK, have been told by child services that they would be required to take teenaged foster children to homosexual support groups and teach the children placed in their care that homosexuality is normal. When the couple told officials at social services that it would violate their conscience to do so, the eleven year-old boy who had been placed with them was removed.

Somerset Council officials cited the recently passed Sexual Orientation Regulations when they decided that people who open their homes to children in need, must also discuss same-sex relationships and promote homosexuality as normal and “equal”.

Vincent and Pauline Matherick have looked after twenty-eight children since 2001 with an untarnished record as care givers. When the couple first started fostering, they took in young single mothers and their babies, but have recently had mostly primary school aged children. They told the Daily Telegraph that officials with the Somerset Council had told them that if a child in their care showed signs of interest in homosexuality, they would be expected to encourage them by taking them to a homosexual support group.

Vincent Matherick, a minister at the South Chard Christian Church and a primary school governor, told the Telegraph, “They were saying that we had to be prepared to talk about sexuality with 11 year-olds, which I don’t think is appropriate anyway...

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HRC's Back-To-School Tips for Gay Parents

Scott Davis, Exodus Youth Director, wrote the following:

In a recent email to gay and lesbian parents, HRC admits that being the child of a gay parent isn't always the greatest thing in the world:

Better dust off those backpacks and sharpen those pencils — back-to-school time is here again. Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender parents often face a unique set of challenges when it’s time for the kids to head back, whether it’s talking to them about fairness for GLBT families or working with school administrators to create a welcoming learning environment. Find out more about what GLBT parents need to know at this time of year.

"Unique set of challenges" is certainly a mild way to put it. Study after study proves that children need both a mother and father figure who are actively involved in their lives. Children of gay or lesbian parents are automatically denied healthy male or female influence as they grow up. This places them at a tremendous disadvantage as they head off to school, where they must now learn own their own how to interact with both males and females.

HRC makes an even more startling admission in the text of the article, saying "Our children do not need to bear the burden of the struggle for GLBT rights and diversity in their schools".far before the welfare of children.

Perhaps this means they will halt their vocal and monetary support of student groups devoted to homosexual activism! But I doubt it. Based on their actions, activism seems to come


For a redemptive view of sexuality and young adults please visit http://exodusyouth.net.

Kids In Castro Cause Tension

The following LA Times article was passed on to me by a friend via email.  I am going to parse it and make comments along the way.  Be warned:  Subject material will offend most.

 

A Haven's Sex and Sensibility

Protective parents -- straight and gay -- are objecting to racy storefronts in S.F.'s Castro district. Some merchants are defiant.

By John M. Glionna, Times Staff Writer April 21, 2006

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-castro21apr21,0,810728,full.story?coll=la-home-headlines

LA Times

 

SAN FRANCISCO — Brody Paul and his kid brother Zander are making their after-school rounds in this city's Castro district — one of the most openly gay neighborhoods in America .

 

Brody, 12, shops for mouthwash and Clearasil. His brother wants No. 2 pencils. Veterans of tolerant San Francisco , they're unfazed by the two women holding hands and the graffiti etched into the sidewalk: "Nick Loves Olaf."

 

But along Castro Street , the main business drag just two blocks from their home, the boys encounter images more difficult for children to digest. A video store where they regularly rent Disney films stocks triple-X gay porn flicks in plain view. Across the street, next to

their favorite pizza joint, the front window of a gay sex shop called Rock Hard displays a large Day-Glo purple sex toy, leather trusses

and graphic manuals.

 

"It's scary. It kind of makes you shudder," says Zander, who just turned 8.

 

"It's not scary," Brody corrects, offering a typical child's view of anything sexual. "It's just gross."

These are kids who live in Castro, not rural allegedly homophobic America.  This is supposed to be the Mecca of tolerance (hypocritical as it may be).  If you do not buy into the gay dogma at the heart of Castro you are very likely going to face rejection and ridicule.  If these boy's innocent reactions, in spite of a very pro-gay community, city and region, are fear and repulsion, you can't blame it on homophobia.  One of these kids even says being gay is natural at the end of the article.

 

Perhaps it is the messages that some in the gay identified and many in the gay activist communities are sending that create fear and repulsion.  Maybe gay porn next to children's videos like Snow White deserves to be called scary and repulsive ... even by the adults in the gay identified community.

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UK Author, Broadcaster, Subjected to Police Inquiry for Criticizing Homosexual Adoption as “Homophobic”

A British author and broadcaster was the subject of a police inquiry after she criticized homosexual adoption in a live radio broadcast. - Terry Vanderheyden

Court Says Same-Sex Partner Can Claim Same Rights As Biological Parent

http://www.afa.net/clp/ReleaseDetail.asp?id=109

Center for Law and Policy

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Court Says Same-Sex Partner Can Claim Same Rights As Biological Parent

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For Immediate Release:  11/4/2005

Tupelo, MS - Yesterday, the Washington Supreme Court ruled that an individual who is not a parent, but who has had a relationship with a child’s biological or adoptive parent, can claim the same legal rights to a child as the parent.

The case involved two women who had cohabitated for twelve years. In 1994, the two women, Sue Ellen Carvin and Page Britain, decided they wanted a child. A male friend, John Auseth, had sexual relations with Britain, and she become pregnant. A child was born in 1995, and Britain and Carvin raised the child for the next six years. Their relationship ended in 2001. Britain then married Auseth, and in 2002, she sought to terminate all of Carvin’s contact with the child.

With only one dissent, the court held that Washington’s “common law recognizes the status of de facto parents and places them in parity with biological and adoptive parents.” If Carvin is able to establish standing as a de facto parent, said the court, then just like Britain, she “would have a fundamental liberty interest in the care, custody and control” of the child.

Dissenting Justice Johnson wrote, “The majority purports to dispose of the constitutional issue raised . . . by waving a magic wand and creating ‘de facto’ parents.”

Brian Fahling, senior trial attorney for the American Family Association Center for Law & Policy, called the majority’s decision “an unambiguous case of social engineering.”

“Washington law sets forth in the clearest terms when a parent-child relationship exists, and the majority simply elected to disregard the law,” Fahling said. “Relying upon ‘advancing technologies and evolving notions of what comprises a family unit,’ the court imposed on the people of Washington their own definition of what constitutes a family.

“This decision is judicial activism in the extreme; it is evidence, not that we are on a slippery slope, but that we are already at the bottom of that slope,” Fahling added.

The Center is the legal arm of the American Family Association, Inc. located in Tupelo, Mississippi. The Center restricts its practice to First Amendment issues.





The Expense of Spirit

www.city-journal.org/html/eon_10_25_05td.html

"...a lesbian couple wished to have children. An understanding and liberal-minded male friend agreed to donate his sperm, and three children were born... the two women ...split up...The mother of the children found herself alone and in difficult straits...Her former lover was unwilling, because—after all—she was no relation of the children. The sperm donor ...found himself obliged henceforth to support the mother and children financially..."...the culprit here is the idea that the fulfilment of our desires, no matter what our condition, is a right.."-Theodore Dalrymple, City Journal, Oct. 25, 2005

Psychological Cheerleading

http://www.pfm.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=BreakPoint1&Template=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=17083

"Yesterday I talked about the new book Raising Boys without Men by Peggy Drexler and Linden Gross, focusing on Drexler’s appallingly shoddy research...what Drexler is actually saying: that boys are better off without fathers. Over and over again, she points out that when you don’t have a father around, you don’t have father abuse or father neglect, or any number of other negative effects. “In our society,” she writes, “often we idealize and elevate the role of father in a boy’s life without giving credence to the fact that actual fathers can be destructive and a boy may be better off without his father. Sometimes a father can be an aggressor who berates the mother, is hypercritical of his children, or . . . is simply not a good model.”- Mark Earley, Breakpoint, Oct. 27, 2005

Sperm Donor Told to Pay Maintainence to Lesbian Mum

http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/International/nyhetssidor/artikel.asp?ProgramID=2054&Nyheter=&artikel=712473

" A Swedish man who donated his sperm to a lesbian couple will have to pay child support after the couple split up and the mother claimed maintainence." - Radio Sweden,Oct. 2005

Homosexual civil-union, divorce and a 3-year-old

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46421

"The New York Times devoted half a page to reporting from Vermont's state capital of Montpelier: Judges in Vermont and Virginia have different ideas about what is best for Isabella Miller-Jenkins, 3, born to a woman who had a civil union with another woman in Vermont. The relationship ended two years ago. Now each woman says Isabella is her daughter, with one asserting exclusive motherhood. The judge in Vermont ruled that the women should "be treated no differently than a husband and wife." ...Legal experts say the decisions, which reached State Supreme Court here on Wednesday, are the first to present a direct conflict between two state courts on a substantial legal question arising from a same-sex couple's union. The decisions offer a preview, the experts added, of what are quite likely to be many similar conflicts around the nation. "- Les Kinsolving, World Net Daily,Exclusive Commentary, Sept. 20, 2005

Raising Boys Without Men: Lesbian Parents Good, Dads Bad

http://www.mensnewsdaily.com/archive/s/sacks/2005/sacks092005.htm

"It’s one thing to be respectful of gays and gay parents. It’s quite another to engineer a deceptive study and use it to assert that lesbian families are a better environment in which to raise boys than heterosexual families. That’s what former Stanford University gender scholar Peggy F. Drexler, Ph.D. does in her new book Raising Boys Without Men: How Maverick Moms Are Creating the Next Generation of Exceptional Men. Unfortunately the mainstream media is helping her promote her claims.

In the book’s opening pages Drexler’s message is one of tolerance for various family forms, as she notes that lesbian and single mother families “can” effectively raise boys. But Raising Boys soon devolves into outright advocacy of lesbian parenting. In Drexler’s world, lesbian families—protected from fathers and their toxic masculinity--are the best environments in which to raise boys. Married heterosexual mothers try their best, but the positive influence these hapless moms try to impart to their children is overwhelmed by that of the malevolent family patriarch. "- Glenn Sacks, MensNewsDaily.com, Sept. 20, 2005

Raising Boys Without Men: Lesbian Parents Good, Dads Bad

http://www.mensnewsdaily.com/archive/s/sacks/2005/sacks092005.htm

"It’s one thing to be respectful of gays and gay parents. It’s quite another to engineer a deceptive study and use it to assert that lesbian families are a better environment in which to raise boys than heterosexual families. That’s what former Stanford University gender scholar Peggy F. Drexler, Ph.D. does in her new book Raising Boys Without Men: How Maverick Moms Are Creating the Next Generation of Exceptional Men. Unfortunately the mainstream media is helping her promote her claims.

In the book’s opening pages Drexler’s message is one of tolerance for various family forms, as she notes that lesbian and single mother families “can” effectively raise boys. But Raising Boys soon devolves into outright advocacy of lesbian parenting. In Drexler’s world, lesbian families—protected from fathers and their toxic masculinity--are the best environments in which to raise boys. Married heterosexual mothers try their best, but the positive influence these hapless moms try to impart to their children is overwhelmed by that of the malevolent family patriarch. "- Glenn Sacks, MensNewsDaily.com, Sept. 20, 2005

Belgians March to Protest Homosexual Adoption

http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/sep/05091203.html

"About 4,600 people joined the March for the Family Belgian pro-family coalition to rally against a government proposition to legalize adoption by homosexuals Saturday.

Michel Ghins, co-organizer and professor of philosophy at the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve spoke at the march. “This march for the family is not an action against homosexuals, who deserve all our respect but we refuse that they be put at the same level of equality when it comes to the union between a man and a woman,” he said. Ghins added, “Men and women have specific roles in the education of a child. We publicly claim the right to the family.” During his speech, Ghins further commented that a child needs affection and stability, which only a family based on the complementarity of men and women can provide. "- LifeSiteNews.com, Sept. 12, 2005

Legal Rep Referencing Federal DOMA in Interstate Same-Sex Civil Union Custody Controversy

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/9/72005a.asp

"The chief counsel for Florida-based Liberty Counsel says oral arguments in an important child custody case will be presented before the Vermont Supreme Court today. The case involves Lisa Miller, a former lesbian who traveled to Vermont to obtain a civil union with her partner while they were living in Virginia. Miller later gave birth to a child through artificial insemination.

The couple later broke up, and now Miller's former partner, Janet Jenkins, is demanding visitation rights to the child. Vermont law recognizes Jenkins parental rights while Virginia law does not. But Miller, now a Christian, has not allowed Jenkins to see the child and Vermont courts have found her in contempt."-Mary Rettig, Sept. 7, 2005

Researcher Surveys Studies On Gay Parenting and Children

http://www.narth.com/docs/researcher.html

"August 30, 2005 - Fiona Tasker, Ph.D., has published "Lesbian Mothers, Gay Fathers, and Their Children: A Review" in the Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics 26(3):224-240, June 2005.

Dr. Tasker urges pediatricians to consider how to deal effectively with various family forms, which include lesbian, gay, and bisexual parenting arrangements, which may include egg and sperm surrogacy arrangements between gay males and gay females....She admits that many of the current studies are skewed: "The majority of lesbian and gay parents and their children participating in studies have been recruited through advertising. In many contexts, it is still not safe for lesbians and gay men to be publicly 'out' about their sexuality, so a representative sample of lesbian and gay parents and their children probably constitutes an unattainable goal at present."- NARTH.com

Solomon’s Wisdom Missing in California Decisions

http://www.drthrockmorton.com/print.asp?id=161

"Today, in California, if two women come before a judge both claiming motherhood, they may both get the child. Recently, the California Supreme Court issued decisions in three cases deciding that a child can have two mothers with all the parental rights and responsibilities accompanying the designation of parent."- Warren Throckmorton, PHD, Sept. 2, 2005

Mental Health Group Critiques Homosexuals as Foster Parents

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/8/312005e.asp

"In May, the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) released a review of research on homosexual parenting, including adoption and foster care. The results clearly demonstrate why pro-family groups need to continue efforts to preserve the traditional definition of both marriage and family.

NARTH is an association of mental health professionals who operate under the assumption that homosexual individuals who want to change, can change -- with counseling. The organization provides an international referral service of licensed therapists offering sexual reorientation treatment."- Ed Vitagliano, Agape Press, Aug. 31, 2005

Gay Fathers of five end child custody dispute

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/3327257

"Two gay men who made worldwide news by parenting quadruplets and then a fifth child with a surrogate mother have been fighting for custody and time sharing of the quads for more than a year, court records reveal.

Moreover, Michael Meehan, the 3-year-olds' biological father, alleges in court documents that the couple actually ended their same-sex partner relationship two months before the quad babies were born in Lexington in 2002."- Lexington Herald, Aug. 27, 2005

Collective ” Dad, Mom and I “

http://am.novopress.info/?p=931

Rue de la Cible 48 - 1030 Brussels
Phone : 00 32 2.503.55.21 - Fax: 00 32 2.734.80.55 - GSM: 0477.80.40.51

Communiqué
Big European demonstration against the adoption by the homosexual
couples on September 17 in Brussels
What is the collective ” Dad, Mom and I “?
The collective was created in September, 2004.
This collective has no political bent.

The only object is to protect the right of the child to have a father and a mother.
In November, 2004, the collective organized an European colloquium near Brussels (Brabant) which gathered specialists, child psychiatrists, psychologists, doctors, jurists, responsible for centres of adoption of children, theologians, coming from Europe and from the United States.
300 persons have participated to this colloquium.

On February, the collective launched a national petition. It has collected at the moment more than 6.000 signatures.
Among these thousands signatures, are those of a Bishop, magistrates, businessmen, university teachers.
This petition will continue to circulate until the Belgian Senate will examine the law proposal.
European demonstration on September 17 in Brussels
The collective organizes also a big demonstration on September 17 in Brussels with for slogan ” No to the adoption of children by the homosexuals. A child needs a father and a mother! “

This demonstration will start at 14. 30 in front of the Law court and will end in the place of Luxemburg, almost in the feet of the European institutions. These symbols are a voluntary choise. We plan to give to this demonstration an European character and numerous organizations of defence of the Family of various countries of Europe announced their participation.
We also call all the members of parliament opposite to this law proposal to join this demonstration.
This invitation is also sent to all the European elected members known for their support to the family values.
Appeal in front of the Court of Arbitrage

Finally, in the hypothesis where this law proposal should be nevertheless approved by a majority of members of the parliament, Chamber and , Senate, we would begin an appeal to the Court of Arbitration. This appeal would be made in French and in Dutch and various lawyers have already offered us their service for that purpose.
Finally, naturally, let’s pray to obtain the necessary graces for this important mobilization.

For the collective,
Patrick de Ruette, Alain Escada and Bruno Dekkers

Woul’d support this initiative?
Any donation will be very useful on the account : 001-2322584-92 with the mention of ” September 17 ” ( For the international transfers: IBAN: BE12 0012 3225 8492 BIC:
GEBABEBB)

With already the support of: European Pro-Life Doctors ( EPLD), the Katholische Aerzte Muenchen ( KÄM), the Catholic Association of the Nurses, Doctors and Professionals of the Health of France ( ACIM), the European Large Families Confederation ( ELFAC), the Associaçào Portuguesa de Familias Numerosas ( APFN), the Forum da Familia ( Portugal), of the UNEC(United Nations for Catholic Europ) , Radio-silence, Europae Gentes, The Universe, Rosary For the Life, the National Confederacy of the Catholic Families ( France), the Catholic Association of the Valley of the Oise (France), of Pro Vita, Jurivie, Circles Holy Augustine and of Belgium and Christendom.

Despite Junk Science and Frustrating Rulings, Children Still Need a Mother and a Father

http://www.earnedmedia.org/cchf0823.htm

CCF Responds to California Supreme Court Ruling Abolishing Traditional Parenthood

To: National Desk Campaign for Children and Families, a leading West Coast pro-family organization, is shocked and saddened by today’s ruling by the California Supreme Court abolishing the traditional definition of parenthood.

Today’s trio of decisions by the state high court means parenting, custody and child support laws now apply to homosexual couples that used artificial insemination to conceive. The Supreme Court “reinterpreted” parenting and egg donation laws to fully equate two women with a mother and a father.

In a radical statement that is not supported by logic or facts of human physiology and reproduction, the Court stated, “We perceive no reason why both parents of a child cannot be women.”

“Despite junk science and frustrating rulings like this, children still need a mother and a father,” said Randy Thomasson, president of Campaign for Children and Families (CCF). “A child does not have two mommies or two daddies; a child comes into this world because she has a mother who gave her egg and a father who gave his sperm. This ruling goes against Nature. It ignores the self-evident truth that God designed a man and a woman to fit together and participate in the miracle of procreation.”

“Now that the definition of parenthood has been thrown out the window, what’s next?” asked Thomasson. “Redefining marriage to be two men or two women? This ruling gives Californians more reason than ever to support VoteYesMarriage.com to protect marriage as the basic family unit in the California Constitution. While the Voters’ Right to Protect Marriage Initiative will not affect adoption and child custody laws, it will at least establish that marriage rights are for one man and one woman, as it was, is, and always should be.”

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California Court Declares One Child Can Have Two Moms

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/8/232005a.asp

"A spokesman for a leading West Coast pro-family organization says his group is shocked and saddened over an August 22 ruling by the California Supreme Court abolishing the traditional definition of parenthood. In three separate cases that raised fundamental issues as to the definition of family and parent, the court decided in each case that a child may legally have two mothers."- Jenni Parker, Agape Press, August 23, 2005

California Justices Rule in Favor of Same-Sex Parental Rights

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/22/national/22cnd-gay.html?hp&ex=1124769600&en=75d84513c121572a&ei=5094&partner=homepage

"The California Supreme Court ruled today that women whose lesbian partners bear children are both entitled and required to be treated as the children's mothers in many circumstances. "We perceive no reason," the court ruled, "why both parents of a child cannot be women." - ADAM LIPTAK, The New York Times, Aug. 22, 2005

Gay Couples Seeking Surrogates

http://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0037043.cfm

A growing number of surrogate moms are having babies for homosexual couples, with close to half of the surrogate agencies in the country working with homosexual partners or seeking to. The reason for this increase is feared to be that homosexual parents lend credibility to the gay and lesbian agenda. "There's legislative pressure against gay and lesbian adoption, and so they're looking to parent through other means. They want to go on 'Oprah' as proud parents and show off their children. It certainly casts them in a very favorable light." - Doug Donnelly, who works with adoptions in California.

Study finds risk to kids of same-sex parents

http://www.bpnews.net/bpcolumn.asp?ID=1868

The national media made light of the concern about gay marriage when the first anniversary of the Massachusetts legislation came around. They proclaimed that "the sky had not fallen" after all when it came to homosexuals who married and started families. However, elsewhere grave concerns for the families created by that legislature and harvest of children that were invested in those families began to surface. One such concern was voiced by a Spanish study entitled "The Report on Infantile Development in Same-Sex Couples." It revealed that children raised by homosexual couples reported increased rates of "low self-esteem, stress, confusion regarding sexual identity, an increase in mental illness, drug use, promiscuity, sexually transmitted disease, and homosexual behavior." The report also found that, "same-sex relationships betray a much higher instance of separation and break-up than heterosexual relationships, increasing the likelihood that the child will experience familial instability."

Kids in legal gray area when gay couples split

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-06-20-custody_x.htm

Three cases of gay parents who have split and are now in court to determine who can see the children involved and who has to pay child support. "At issue: In same-sex relationships, what makes a person a parent? Is it biology, existing legal standards or whether that person acts like a parent?" -Richard Willing- USA Today

Jealous Rosie O’Donnell Orders Lesbian Partner To Stop Nursing Her Child

http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/jun/05060907.html

“Kelly [Rosie’s partner] only nursed for like about a month, and then I was very angry, because as the other mommy...with the other babies nobody nursed because they were adopted. But with this baby it was like she was the only one getting to bond. So I was like the nursing is over! I cut her off. I’m like, you’ve had your limit honey. No more!”- Rosie O'Donnell, In a statement during an appearance on ABC’s The View

Expert: Many Promote Homosexual Parenting With Poor Reasons, Faulty Premise

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/6/92005c.asp

"the big push for same-sex parenting has much less to do with the desire of homosexuals, generally, for children than it does with a desire that they have to not be different -- to not be singled out and treated differently. They want to have the same rights that everybody else in society has."-Dr. Christopher Wolfe, professor of political science and an expert on homosexuality and American public life

Experts Worldwide Find Gay Adoption Harmful for Children

http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/may/05053106.html

“In no way can a couple of persons of the same sex be judged suitable for adopting a child. Considering the findings of this vast bibliography we are obliged to protect the minor and say that same-sex couples must not be allowed to adopt children.” said the President of HazteOir, which along with the Spanish Forum for the Family, the Institute for Family Policy which produced the "Report on Infantile Development in Same-Sex Couples” and The Spanish Association of Pediatrics firmly backed the findings.

Same-sex child custody battles headed to California Supreme Court

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/05/23/state/n163347D59.DTL

By LISA LEFF, Associated Press Writer

Tuesday, May 24, 2005

A complex glut of judicial nightmares is being dealt with in the California Supreme court involving several cases where one or both gay partners wants clarification on the financial responsibility of raising a child created by their partnership, or wants full control of said child.

Kids need a real past

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0505140249may15,0,7939985.story?page=2&coll=chi-newsopinionperspective-hed

In many cases gay parents conceive children by artificial insimination. There is no intention of ever having the conceived child interact or even meet their donor parent. This article discusses the down side of children's lives when they have a parent they do not know.

Groups Clash Over Texas Ban of Gay Foster Parents

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050421/us_nm/rights_gays_texas_dc_1

Thu Apr 21, 5:40 PM ET

HOUSTON (Reuters) - The Texas House of Representatives passed a bill this week that would ban homosexuals from becoming foster parents, outraging gay leaders and delighting social conservatives.

The gay ban was an amendment added to legislation to overhaul the state's Children's Protective Services agency, which has gotten overwhelmed by underfunding and a growing caseload of troubled and imperiled children.

STATE HOUSE PASSES BILL WHICH BANS HOMOSEXUAL FOSTER PARENTS

http://www.kfdx.com/news/default.asp?mode=shownews&id=8360

Wednesday, April 20, 2005

Should homosexuals be allowed to be foster parents in Texas? Many state lawmakers are saying "no." Yesterday, the House approved a bill to overhaul Child Protective Services, including a last-minute amendment banning gays, lesbians and bi-sexuals from serving as foster parents. If the bill becomes law, Texas would be the only state banning gay foster parents, and this has gay and lesbian support groups around town angry.

Frank's ad will defend same-sex parenting

http://www2.townonline.com/brookline/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=201075


By Noelle Straub/ Boston Herald
Thursday, March 10, 2005

U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D-4th, will film an ad defending same-sex parenting in response to the flap over a PBS children's program denounced by the Bush administration for showing kids with lesbian mothers.

Lesbian couples and single women queueing for fertility treatment

http://www.helsinginsanomat.fi/english/article/1101978716862


Clinics overloaded with those worried by impending new legislation

A number of fertility treatment clinics are crowded in anticipation of a new law on fertility treatment. Many lesbian couples and single women have sought treatment at the clinics, because they believe that the upcoming law will exclude them from the procedure.

Sweden to allow IVF for lesbians

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4315145.stm

Swedish legislators are due to amend a law which would legalise fertilisation treatment for lesbian couples.

The new provision, which is expected to pass easily before coming into force in July, will be available to lesbian couples joined in civil partnerships.

After the child is born, both women would be regarded as its mother.

Currently, artificial insemination is only available to heterosexual partners, requiring lesbian couples to go abroad for treatment.

Bush Gets One Right

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=115&ncid=742&e=7&u=/ucmg/20050209/cm_ucmg/bushgetsoneright

Wed Feb 9, 6:43 PM ET
By Maggie Gallagher

What is the one idea that has to go in order to make room for same-sex marriage?

In late January, President George W. Bush (news - web sites) touched on it: "Studies have shown that the ideal is where a child is raised in a married family with a man and a woman." As president, Bush added, "I will always be aiming for the ideal."

Lesbians raising sons; got a problem with that?

http://www.bpnews.net/printcolumn.asp?ID=1672

FIRST-PERSON: By R. Albert Mohler Jr.
Dec 30, 2004

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (BP)--"Brian, a bright and personable third-grader, brought home from school a form that frustrated him: his family tree, complete with empty spaces for mother, father, and four spaces for grandparents. Brian's parents are a lesbian couple; his father is an unknown sperm donor. Brian's mothers worked to persuade their son that nothing was wrong with this family -- instead, something was wrong with the school form."

That story was told by Peggy F. Drexler, a research psychologist and advisory board member of the San Francisco Day School. It was published in the The San Francisco Chronicle last summer, and served notice that America is adopting "new family values."

Ark. court overrules ban on gay foster parents

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6767205/

State promises to appeal ruling won by ACLU

The Associated Press
Updated: 1:32 p.m. ET Dec. 30, 2004

A judge struck down a state ban on placing foster children in any household with a gay member, ruling that the state agency enforcing the rule had overstepped its authority by trying to regulate “public morality.”

The state promised Thursday to appeal the ruling, which came Wednesday from Judge Timothy Fox in a case brought by the Arkansas chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.

At issue was a 1999 regulation of the Child Welfare Agency Review Board that said gays cannot become foster parents, and foster children cannot be placed in any home with a gay member under its roof.

Ark. Judge Voids Ban on Gay Foster Parents

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Gay-Foster-Parents.html

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: December 29, 2004

Filed at 8:17 p.m. ET

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- An Arkansas judge Wednesday declared unconstitutional a state ban on placing foster children in any household with a gay member.

Ruling in a case brought by the Arkansas chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, Pulaski County Circuit Judge Timothy Fox said the state Child Welfare Agency Review board had overstepped its authority by trying to regulate ``public morality.''

Ex-lesbian battles former partner over child

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41810

LAW OF THE LAND
Parental rights of Vermont civil union enforced in Utah


Posted: December 8, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern


© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com

A woman who gave birth to a child months before entering a same-sex civil union in Vermont is appealing a court ruling that granted parental standing to her former partner.

Cheryl Barlow, who says she no longer is a lesbian, was united with Keri Jones, both residents of Utah, five months after Barlow became pregnant by artificial insemination in 2001.

Panel discusses differences in growing up with gay parents

http://www.tuftsdaily.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/11/23/41a2dbf1a7d30

Published November 23, 2004
Perrin, parents share statistics and personal experiences

An analysis of 25 years worth of studies on children of homosexual parents has shown virtually no differences vis-à-vis children of heterosexual parents, Dr. Ellen Perrin said at a well-attended panel yesterday.

Perrin, who is a professor of pediatrics for the Tufts-New England Medical Center, discussed nine studies on the children of gay parents, published between 1981 and 1994 in the library of Eliot-Pearson School of Child Development.

"Each individual study is very small and probably can't be relied on, but when you put them together they tell a monotonous, repeated story," Perrin said. "The findings are incredibly similar."

Children of same-sex parents appear to fare well in research

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Early studies find positive outcomes, but more work remains
Sunday, November 14, 2004
By Barri Bronston
Staff writer

While studies on same-sex parenting are relatively new, that hasn't stopped a lot of organizations from weighing in on the topic already. The American Psychological Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the National Association of Social Workers and the American Bar Association are among the groups that have something to say on the topic.

Though most of the research revolves around lesbian parents, all conclude that it is the stability of the parents' relationship -- not their sexual orientation -- that determines the quality of a child's upbringing.

Moms and Dads are Different

http://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0034412.cfm

November 4, 2004

by Steve Jordahl, correspondent

Research proves parents respond uniquely to the needs of their children.

Mothers and fathers respond differently to their baby's cry, and the difference can be found in the brain. That's according to one of several studies from the Society for Neuroscience that find mothers are primed for care.

"Mothers may be more hardwired in more ancient areas of the brain to react," said researcher Jeffery Lorberbaum.

Dr. Bill Maier, psychologist in residence at Focus on the Family, said such studies refute gay activists who are pushing for same sex marriage in our society.

"They say that the only thing that children need is two loving adults to care for them," he noted, "but no matter how loving two dads may be they simply can't provide a mommy to a child."

The Gayby Boom

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/archive/2004/09/28/gaybyboom.DTL


Gay couples no longer immune from feeling the pressure to procreate

By Jenn Shreve, Special to SF Gate
Tuesday, September 29, 2004
It used to be that if all your friends were having kids, you were probably a straight, child-free person in your late 20s to mid-40s. But in recent years, as a growing number of same-sex couples have taken up parenting, many Bay Area gays and lesbians have found themselves in similar positions. And, though some who choose not to raise children are embracing their roles as doting aunties and uncles, many in the gay and lesbian community wonder whether this trend could spell the end to the homosexual lifestyle as we know it.

Yes, the Bay Area appears to be in the midst of a serious gay-by boom. If the abundance of couples exchanging marriage vows before God and offspring last February wasn't evidence enough of this phenomenon, saunter on down to Dolores Park any sunny weekend to catch a glimpse of shiny, happy same-sex parents and their children at play, or ask any lesbian you know when the last baby shower she attended was.

For Stacey Camillo, a 40-year-old contract manager in the telecommunications industry, and Alex Alexander, 37, her partner of 12 years, the answer to the shower question is "last weekend," and, they say, there was no shortage of pregnant lesbians or actual kids in attendance, either.

"A lot of our friends have been talking about this for a while -- finding someone, then getting to the point where the relationship could withstand having a family," says Alexander, a massage therapist. "Now, they're all having kids at the same time."

Feuding sides change in custody battles

http://www.thetimesonline.com/articles/2004/09/19/news/local_illinois/210543dce14ace6b86256f13000faf03.txt


Increasing non-traditional families adding new twist to fights over children.

BY SAMIRA PUSKAR, ANDY TAYLOR-FABE AND PAULINE VU
Medill News Service


A Marin County, Calif. woman cannot see her biological children because the children's birth mother -- her ex-partner -- forbids it.

Four people are fighting over custody of triplet boys in Erie, Pa.

In Chicago, a man who is not the biological father of a 3-year-old boy but said he acted as a father to the child in every other way is suing for visitation rights.

As traditional nuclear families become less common than a generation ago, child custody battles also have become more complex. Surrogate mothers, sperm and egg donors and even people not related to the children -- all usually excluded from raising them -- are now vying for a role in the parenting process.

Custody battle may affect gay rights

http://wvgazette.com/section/News/Today/2004091632

September 17, 2004



By Toby Coleman
Staff Writer
ina Burch says she never wanted to tell this story.

It starts in 1999, when she helped her lesbian lover, Christina D. Smarr, find a man to impregnate her. It moves through pregnancy, the birth of a healthy boy and the establishment of an untraditional two-mom household in Clay County.

“If anybody asks,” Burch recalls telling her teenage daughter after the boy’s birth on Christmas Day 1999, “keep this within the family.”

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That ended in a snap two years ago, when Burch fell asleep at the wheel and got into a wreck that killed Smarr. Burch and Smarr’s parents fell into a pitched custody battle for the boy. Soon, the world began learning about Burch’s unusual story.

The state Supreme Court is preparing to consider the case this spring, and its decision could help decide whether homosexuals who help raise children can ever get custody of a same-sex partner’s child.

Father of lesbian couple's child wants access to daughter

http://montreal.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=qc_kids20040913


MONTREAL - A one-year-old girl is at the centre of a court battle between a lesbian couple and the child's biological father.

The man wants access to the girl and for the right to have his name on the toddler's birth certificate

The two women say he was simple sperm donor and they are the child's only legal parents.

What the father wants

The man says he was always more than a just sperm donor, and that he and the child's biological mother had dated for a year.

He says they had gone to a see a fertility specialist together, they had planned a baby together, and it was always understood he would be an involved father.

He maintains that the mother's lesbian partner didn't want a child, and yet her name appears on the birth certificate.

An earlier court ruling gave the father a temporary right to visit the girl three times a week. Now he wants to make the right to access permanent.