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davidinalameda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-20-05 12:01 PM
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Gay father will get his day in court
http://www.advocate.com/news_detail.asp?id=17800

A gay father should be given a chance to present evidence that his son was harmed by a Virginia court ruling that he would have to give up custody of the boy unless his partner moved out of the house, the Maryland court of appeals ruled. The state's second highest court reversed a Montgomery County, Md., circuit court judge's decision to dismiss the complaint by the father, Ulf Hedberg, without giving his lawyers a chance to present evidence. In a ruling issued Monday, the appeals court sent the case back to the circuit court for a full hearing. "The father is now given his day in court to show why the restriction...has been hurting the child and should be modified," said Susan Sommer, a Lambda Legal lawyer who helped represent Hedberg in the appeals court. "The court concluded that the father had presented...a number of facts showing that the child was only being hurt by having the longtime partner restricted from living in the family home."
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sui generis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-20-05 12:05 PM
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1. sometimes in their rush to punish us for being gay
they forget they hurt other people too.

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greekspeak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-20-05 12:15 PM
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2. People are only collateral damage unless they can be exploited
These little tempests in teapots prove the Right's hypocracy:

Fags are bad parents...we have to help that innocent child...

BY

...causing the child the misery of the publicity of the situation, making a spectacle out of Dad, seperating the child from another person in case fag germs rub off.
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We have to save every smear of cells because they are life & sacred

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Condoning violence against living humans doing their jobs
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We have to stop "TERRA"

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Killing Americans for a pack of lies to get at oil and money
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We have to make America a GREAT CHRISTIAN NATION again

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Attacking members of minority religions, setting up special gov't programs that benefit Christian churches, turning a blind eye to using the pulpit for political purposes, and installing 2 ton granite Judeo-Christian idols in courthouses. All this, while forgetting slavery, slaughter, and elitist money grubbing conspicuously abset along the rosy path of nostalgia.


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