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PostSun Mar 25, 2007 8:19 pm    Lesbian asks court to ban gay adoptions

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Sara Wheeler's life has become a contradiction. Once a proud lesbian, she's now a pariah in the gay community. Once in a committed relationship with a female partner, she's rethinking her sexuality.

And now she's doing something she once would have considered unthinkable � arguing that gays don't have the legal right to adopt children.

Wheeler is coming to grips with the fact that she's become an outcast for taking this step in a custody fight for her child. But she says that isn't what her fight is about: "It's about motherly rights."


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PostSun Mar 25, 2007 8:31 pm    

What does motherly rights have to do with trying to get the courts to ban adaption if your gay?


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PostSun Mar 25, 2007 8:34 pm    

Lord Borg wrote:
What does motherly rights have to do with trying to get the courts to ban adaption if your gay?


She's trying to argue that gay adoption isn't under the law, thus the adoption can be thrown out. She is trying to gain custody of her child, if I read that correctly.


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PostSun Mar 25, 2007 8:37 pm    

Ok, she wants custody, but...what does sexual orientation have to do with that? Is she being rejected because shes gay?


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PostSun Mar 25, 2007 8:55 pm    

Lord Borg wrote:
Ok, she wants custody, but...what does sexual orientation have to do with that? Is she being rejected because shes gay?


No, she's trying to say the adoption she made as a gay person with her "partner" is void because it's against the law. So, I'm guessing she's hoping that that will result in the child being taken away or something and giving her a chance to adopt him. I'm not sure.


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PostSun Mar 25, 2007 8:58 pm    

Ok, that bothers me...shes hoping the child gets taken away, just so she can re adpot as a single mother? That sickens me, the child is being used as a pawn...

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PostSun Mar 25, 2007 11:51 pm    

I hope the kids too young to remember any of this.

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