Posted on 01/17/2015 8:11:53 AM PST by HomerBohn
April DeBoer never intended to be a legal pioneer, much less a public face of perhaps the most significant civil rights challenge to reach the Supreme Court in years. She and her partner just wanted to be able to adopt children as a couple.
But when their lawsuit challenging Michigan’s adoption code came to a federal district court in 2012, the judge shocked DeBoer and her partner, Jayne Rowse, telling them they should instead be contesting the state’s same-sex marriage ban. After much anguished discussion, the couple agreed, DeBoer recounted.
“By no means did we set out to be trailblazers,’’ said DeBoer, a nurse who along with Rowse has cared for numerous foster children with special needs. “Taking on the marriage ban seemed like a huge battle, and it still is, but the ban isn’t right. It harms families like ours, so we decided we needed to do it.’’
On Friday, DeBoer, Rowse and same-sex couples from three other states succeeded in putting the issue of marriage equality before the Supreme Court, which accepted their cases and will consider this spring whether the Constitution requires that same-sex couples be allowed to marry.
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In Michigan, DeBoer, 43 and Rowse, 50, also feel as though they’ve become a part of history. They had sued in 2012 only to challenge the state’s adoption code, which prevented them from adopting the special-needs children they had cared for as a couple.
DeBoer and Rowse, who have been dating for about 12 years, are licensed foster parents and have adopted two children each. When they tried to get their wills and other affairs in order, the pair learned that under Michigan law, if one of them died, the other wouldn’t necessarily get the other’s children.
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Diversity?
Lesbians of necessity.
I really wish you had posted some kind of warning as to the graphic nature of this thread.
MY EYES!!!!!!!!
And the so-called "conservatives" will not raise their voices to protect those children, will they? Disgusting.
When I was a kid, history meant something. Now, history is what we used to call a freak show.
To the media, these are Ms. and Ms. Rosa Parks....
“Porky Pig undergoes a sex change and marries Broomhilda”
No the so-called ‘conservatives’ (small’c’) are simply RINOs with their souls removed and shipped south.
Can you imagine these two making a porno video?
800 pounds of Lesbian “history”. America has to be so proud.
ROTFLMAO!
I wonder if Barry will call them with congratulations?
They’ll probably be received with honors at the White Hut.
Gross pigs
Nope!
The premise is a lie.
Either one could have adopted the special needs kid.
Given what is happening in America, and how little most people seem to care, I’d say actual conservatives are a very small fraction of the population. Not sure we have even 50: “And the LORD said, ‘If I find at Sodom fifty righteous in the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake.’”
The 21st Century has been a dystopia far more flawed than any science fiction writer or film could have envisioned.
We observe more taboos than a load of illiterate Dark Age peasants and place the most pathetic irrelevancies on pedestals all in the name of fleeting self-regard.
April The Pig? How appropriate.
Oh, I thought it was a picture of the New Mexico balloon festival.
Looks like a man, dresses like a man, acts like a man...wants to be a man. She is confirming to me that marriage is indeed between a man & a woman. Simple.
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