Posted on 08/14/2014 8:03:57 AM PDT by thetallguy24
PHOENIX (Reuters) - A transgender man who made headlines by giving birth to three children can divorce his wife of more than 10 years, an Arizona appeals court ruled on Wednesday, rejecting a lower court's decision.
A three-member panel of the Arizona Court of Appeals unanimously decided that the divorce can proceed because Thomas Beatie's 2003 marriage in Hawaii was considered legal in Arizona.
"As the Beaties' Hawaii marriage was lawfully entered in Hawaii and is not deemed void by Arizona law, the marriage is valid within this state," said Judge Kenton D. Jones, in the 12-page opinion.
The court's decision overturns a ruling made in March 2013 by a Maricopa County Family Court judge that blocked the divorce.
Judge Douglas Gerlach denied the divorce on the grounds that Beatie had not shown he was a man when he wed in 2003, and thus could not show he and his wife were a heterosexual couple. Same-sex marriages are not recognized as valid in Arizona.
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Crazy people have trouble keeping relationships going. Who would have expected this?
WOW, just when one thinks this country can’t be anymore screwed up.
This is the end!
“Ok, everybody, out of the pool!”
Hmmm.
Where's that copy of Poetry for Dummies? ...
Imagine the tortured life those two children will endure. These are certainly the end times of human sanity. As an historically tolerant society, we are now forced to accept behavior and actions that are not only anti-Christian, but anti-human.
One has to wonder, where do the atheists stand on this perverted era? Do they not understand that the absence of God in their lives does not remove God and his guidance from the Universe?
He/she has now fallen in love with his pet iguana instead.
These things happen, you know....
Al Gore, John Kerry etc., have been apopleptic on the hoax; Climate Change - Gender Change should have them worried.
With Obamacare - there will be an increased demand for this type of perversion. More narcissistic idiots will want their 15 minutes of media attention. Cannot understand what kind of medical professional would enter the field of gender reassignment. Bizarre!!!!
That is so right. In any decent society--not just a Christian society, but just a decent one--these children would be placed in a safe and loving household, and their psychopathic parents would be institutionalized.
A man does not give birth to 3 children.
Get out of here, you freaks.
Wouldn’t it be A LOT easier if men were just men and women were just women, and men and women onlY married each other and did not marry the same gender?
I think I read something about that somewhere, now where was that?..................OH YEAH, THE BIBLE!
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OK... so he... wait... WHAT?
I'm so confused.
Seriously, there needs to be a flow chart. I think in 2003 she pretended to be a man in Hawaii and got married, now they want a divorce in Arizona. Seems to me there was never a legal marriage in the first place, as Hawaii didn’t have ‘gay marriage’ in 2003.
Freegards
A transgender man who made headlines by giving birth to three children can divorce his wife...Huh? This is so confusing...! Thanks liberals!
Calling a butchered up hormoned out woman a man does not make her a man.
Arizona Appeals Court Judge Kenton D. Jones delivered the opinion of the Court, joined by Presiding Judge Patricia A. Orozco and Judge Lawrence F. Winthrop, to overturn the Family Court's dismissal of a couple's request for dissolution of their marriage, based on testimony of the plastic surgeon that child-bearing by a male does not revoke his "transgendered status" of being a "male" married to a female.
Or maybe the "judges" relied on Arnold Schwarzenegger's 1994 movie, "Junior."
In either case, Lily Tomlin was right when she said, "No matter how cynical I get, it's impossible to keep up."
All atheists will eventually learn about God's role in guiding the universe.
Lily is lesbian, and I’m sorry I can’t keep up either.
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