Jeremy highlights this absurd article from WorldNetDaily about “a lesbian [who] is demanding custody of a Christian woman’s daughter in a case that could strong-arm Florida into recognizing out-of-state adoptions by same-sex couples” and does a good job of tearing it apart by noting that the women in question were registered as domestic partners in Washington and that the non-birth mother adopted the child and was listed her as a second parent.
The women eventually moved to Florida and split up, and the birth mother “left her homosexual lifestyle, became a Christian and is engaged to marry a man” and is therefore no longer willing to to grant her former partner visitation rights to their daughter.
The adoptive mother is understandably suing and, predictably, the Liberty Counsel is representing the other mother and claiming the “state of Washington cannot rewrite Florida adoption law and commandeer the state to enforce its contrary policy.”
The Liberty Counsel seems to have become the organization of choice for mothers who find Christianity and then wish to deny their former partners access to their children. LC represented Lisa Miller in her fight against Janet Jenkins and today announced that it was representing yet another mother in a similar situation:
N.B. is the biological mother of a nine-year-old girl. At the time of her daughter’s birth, she was in a same-sex relationship in California. Well after the relationship ended, the former partner sued, and a California court declared her a “de facto” parent, granting A.K. visitation rights.
In the meantime, N.B. moved to Alabama with the child and eventually married a man. She filed a parentage action at the Alabama trial court, which ruled that A.K. had no parental rights cognizable in Alabama. A.K. then challenged the jurisdiction of the court to hear the parentage action. The Alabama Court of Appeals agreed with A.K., concluding that Alabama lacked jurisdiction to entertain the parentage action and thus reinstating A.K.’s parental rights. The Court of Appeals denied a petition for rehearing. Liberty Counsel was then retained to represent N.B. and filed the petition for certiorari to the Alabama Supreme Court to reverse the appellate court’s ruling, which was just granted this week.
LC’s Mat Staver declares that it is important to fight to deny gay parents right to see their children because those who are pressing the “same-sex marriage agenda are trying to use the back door to accomplish what they cannot through the front door. You cannot do an end run around a state’s marriage policy when that policy clearly affirms marriage between one man and one woman.”
But apparently, what you can do is find Christ and flee to a different state with your child in order to deny your former partner and said child’s parent access and then contact the Liberty Counsel, which will come rushing to your defense in the name of protecting the sanctity of marriage and the well-being of families.
Disgraceful.
