Posted on 07/21/2006 7:32:55 AM PDT by presidio9
They told the world that their relationship was like any other and that's why they should be allowed to marry. Now, friends say, they are showing once again that they are just like any other couple: Two years after getting married, Julie and Hillary Goodridge, lead plaintiffs in the state's landmark gay marriage case, are splitting.
Mary Breslauer, a spokeswoman for the couple, confirmed the separation last night. She said the couple are focused now on trying to do what is best for their daughter, Annie, 10.
``Julie and Hillary Goodridge are amicably living apart," Breslauer said in a telephone interview. ``As always their number one priority is raising their daughter, and like the other plaintiff couples in this case, they made an enormous contribution toward equal marriage. But they are no longer in the public eye, and request that their privacy be respected."
Breslauer said they have not filed for divorce. She would not comment on their plans and offered no other details.
Supporters of gay marriage had cast them as the face of their cause: happily together for two decades, financially stable, loving parents, and in 2004, able to legally wed. Julie Goodridge, 49, is president of NorthStar Asset Management, an investment advisory firm, and Hillary, 50, is program director for the Unitarian Universalist Funding Program.
``I just think this really doesn't say anything," Breslaeur said yesterday when asked by a reporter about the significance of the separation. ``Our families, like other families, can face tough times, with many making it through those moments, but some not."
Since gay marriage was legalized in Massachusetts in May 2004, about 7,300 same - sex couples have obtained licenses, according to a Globe survey earlier this year. There have been about 45 divorces; the number of separations has
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No, the "man" is on the right. The gal on the left is the bottom.
That's not saying a whole lot. The Sheehan woman looks like she avoids combs like dracula dodges garlic crucifixes.
I'm curious to know the real reason for the break-up. Was it infidelity?
I guess one of them wanted to change the carpet and drapes.
You need your eyeglasses checked...
I know an easy way to end gay divorce,
eliminate gay marriage...
That one on the left looks a lot like Hillary Clinton.
Possibly you have teh ghey.
exactly, i bet if she went from a carpet to a hardwood floor, that might've kept it going... : )
That obvious...the one you DON'T want to dance with!!!
Well, isn't that special?
Maybe it was just the contrast with the gal clapping on the far right that is affecting my vision. LOL
LOL!!!
Now I know! OK! The good-looking lesbian!
One reason for the break up could be that one gets up earlier than the other. Some people just like to wake up at the crack of dawn.
The other woman was named Fidelity?
Why do they all resemble Cindy Shehag?
The good-looking lesbian!
Not all of 'em wear flannel you know.
Once their common cause of thrusting their lifestyle on all and destroying traditional marriage was done, so were they.
Good-looking guns!
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