Gay couple sue Virginia pool

FOX News ^ | July 5 2012 | Associated Press

[scottjewell]

Club grants, then revokes pool membership of gay couple and son

William Trinkle is suing Roanoke Athletic Club and its affiliate, Carilion Clinic, for breach of contract and violation of the Virginia Consumer Protection Act.

Trinkle says that he purchased a family membership in May for himself, his partner, Juan Granados, and their 2-year-old son, Oliver.

Club officials approved their application, and the family started using the facilities.

Trinkle and Granados said they were shocked when they were turned away from the pool. Club officials told them same-sex couples don't meet Virginia's legal definition of family.

[Gay State Conservative]

First of all....that kid is,at most,the son of one of those two perverts.Second...private property,Virginia (it would appear) does not recognize homosexual “marriage” so...give the pervs their money back and...case closed.

[scottjewell]

And they aren’t going to stop until it is “parent 1, parent 2” and DOMA repealed, and the “new era of multicultural families” ushered in.

[max americana]

I would like to place blame on the membership committee for allowing these inbreds in the first place. Now the fudgepackers will try to other sickos into the club as “guests” just to make a point.

[MNDude]

“It’s not a birth canal, it’s a duct for eliminating waste.”

Whichever it is, I bet poor little Oliver is going to have a sore one. Shouldn’t be legal for men to adopt kids without the presence of a woman in the house.

[max americana]

“a family will become 3 guys a women 2 dogs a goat and 3 children”

You pretty much described the Obama family.

[NormsRevenge]

William and Juan??

[NEMDF]

And the pool has the right to define “family” in whatever way it chooses.

[Jaidyn]

What’s to stop same-sex heterosexual friends from pretending to be a ‘couple’ to get special treatment?

[ExCTCitizen]

Trinkle and Granados said they were shocked when they were turned away from the pool. Club officials told them same-sex couples don’t meet Virginia’s legal definition of family.

Unless Trinkle or Granados carried Oliver to term — they are NOT a family!!!

[Lancey Howard]

Good for this pool. Why should all the normal families who are pool members have to get creeped out by perverts? I’m sure most of the normal families are concerned about keeping their children safe and disease-free. That pool starts letting freaks and perverts prance around and the normal people will flee to another swim club.

[John O]

Shouldn’t be legal for men to adopt kids without the presence of a woman in the house.

This needs to be clarified a bit more. It should be illegal for any single or any couple that is not formed of one man married to one woman to adopt children. Children need a mother AND a father.

[scottjewell]

“And the pool has the right to define “family” in whatever way it chooses.”

More than this, the pool is taking its definition from Virginia State law.

[OldGoatCPO]

Through law you can force tolerance, you cannot force acceptance. While the press likes to claim that the youth of this country are more accepting of gays they are in truth just more tolerant. In my daughters school some teenagers have claimed to be gay. They are still tolerated and hangout with everyone until they do something like same sex kissing. I witnessed this first hand when a group of parents went on a school outing. A young girl who had been my daughters friend since 6th grade did something “gay” during the outing. The males did not care, but with the females there was obviously a problem. My daughter explained what had occurred. While gays are tolerated and in most cases treated like any other teenager in a group, tolerance only goes so far. Kinda of like asking for the checking and leaving because dykes decide to ruin a quiet serene moment with foreplay.

[Carry me back]

You can’t swim at the club this summer, now go Home O !

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Hey Joe, we got an application for a “William and Juan” You don’t suppose?.

Beats me. Probably typoed “William and Joan” Approve it.

Uh, OK.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I understand your point, and agree with the natural preference behind it.

However I must disagree with you on the point of disallowing a single (unmarried) person to adopt.

While it's preferable for a married man and woman to adopt (because as you rightfully say, a child need a mother and a father), for some hard-to-hard-to-place kids, a married mom & dad couple is just not available. Married couples usually want to adopt perfect newborns. That's just the way it is.

Hard-to-place kids include older children (especially older boys), kids with disabilities, (especially ones that can't be remedied by surgery), and sibling groups.

What sometimes happens, is that a single family member will turn up (an adult sister, an uncle) who is willing to adopt. I would certainly rather have a kid adopted by an unmarried adult sister or uncle, than consigned to the purgatory of suffering known as foster-care.

(I'm not saying this to insult good foster-parents. I'm just saying kids in foster-care often get placement after placement that doesn't last long. This can happen over and over. This is emotionally catastrophic for kids.)

As I said, it's especially appropriate to have single-person-adoption if the adopting adult is a relative. But I would approve of it even if the adult is non-related, if the adult is mature and committed to providing a stable home.

I would exclude sexually-active singles no matter what their brand of sexuality. "Dates" or nonmarital house-sharers are at the top of the likely-to-abuse list.

I often think of the novelist Walker Percy, who, with his wo brothers, was adopted by their uncle, William Alexander Percy. It turned out to be a very, very good solution to a tragic situation.

[Gopher Broke]

Unfortunately, Carilion has already caved in to the homosexual couple, see http://www2.wsls.com/news/2012/jul/05/roanoke-athletic-club-changes-membership-policy-ar-2037164/

If you want to comment, the head of the Roanoke Athletic Club is Bud Grey at bgrey@carilionclinic.org

[ncfool]

It must have been their speedo’s. Gay’s and Speedo’s seem to go together.

No pictures please.

[John O]

What sometimes happens, is that a single family member will turn up (an adult sister, an uncle) who is willing to adopt. I would certainly rather have a kid adopted by an unmarried adult sister or uncle, than consigned to the purgatory of suffering known as foster-care.

I'd accept that a single relative should be able to take the child.