Posted on 07/17/2012 4:40:54 PM PDT by scottjewell
For nearly seven years, Dale Liuzza raised his son as the caregiving parent in a gay relationship.
The boy was conceived through a surrogate, a donor egg and a mixture of sperm from both his dads.
"We didn't know or care about the biology," said Liuzza, 31, and a behavioral therapist who works with autistic children in New Orleans. "I pretty much raised him. As far as I was concerned, I carried him."
But when the men's relationship fell apart, his partner determined he was the biological father and took the boy out of state to Texas and eventually to Washington State.
Louisiana does not recognize same-sex marriage or second-parent adoption, so Liuzza was left with no legal parental rights.
"I never imagined he would move out of state and I would have no say in the matter at all," he said. "I don't sleep at night thinking about [the child]."
.. . n North Carolina, for example, second-parent adoptions for same-sex couples were outlawed in 2010. Only stepparents who are legal spouses or the biological parent can adopt. Gay marriage is not legal in that state.
Even those couples who lived in "friendly counties" around the state's urban centers who previously had such rights, had them revoked when a judge invalidated their adoptions.
Now, with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union, six same-sex couples have filed a lawsuit to fight the ban , saying it violates their constitutional rights and is discriminatory. They hope to take it to the Supreme Court.
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It's not a law. REAL marriage is part of NC's constitution now. Take your homo advocacy to another state, b!tch.
The Catholic Church warned the World but the World didn't listen.
Imagine how much simpler life would be for all if humanity saw the madness that would grow from it and decided not to open Pandora's Box after all.
It's a Box that should be closed. Instead we've gotten endless bizarre cases, 65 year old moms, birth defects, "sperm mixtures" and soon eggs with another's DNA and one women fertilizing another's egg.
It baffles me that cloning, that is making a twin from your DNA, is forbidden but these bizarre mixes to produce offspring? Perfectly acceptable.
If that was the was it was done, you're correct.
I would imagine the technology is there, however, to make a combined sperm by splicing DNA from both litigants.
If that's the case, then the entity that did the act is just as much a 'parent' as both the other parties. Aren't we constantly being told 'corporations are people, too"? Don't forget they woman who gave them the egg, either.
Whoever is hearing this case has my sympathy, but IMHO, the best decision they could make it to make the child a ward of the state and tell everyone involved the child will remain a ward of the state until they can come up with two legal parents.
Even with the 'combined' dads, they still lack the mother.
The Marriage Amendment passed with 60%. I’d let it go.
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