give the gays their children

the california supreme court recently made a controversial decision...although i am really not sure how it became controversial (i mean, of course people dont like the gays...but doesnt everyone want kids supported?).

the decision basically ordered a lesbian mother to pay child support to her ex-lovers twins. the two moms had been together for a long, long time and had decided to each get a frozen pop. one had twins, the other came away with just one child. they raised the kids as a family, referred to all of them as children of the both of them...the whole evangelist worst nightmare thing...before splitting up years later. at this point, the mom without the twins felt she no longer wanted to pay for raising the twins...hence the case.

the court made her pay...mostly based on the best interests of the child (the usual child custody/support stuff). only it also mentioned parental rights of gays/lesbians and implied that any person/couple (gay or straight) that raises children as their own incur all the rights/responsibilities of a normal childrearing family. seems pretty logical...

of course this sent some closet homosexuals into an uproar over family values. groups that are extremely vocal in their advocacy of "family values" suddenly found it appalling that an adult that had been in a parental role for most of a child's life be required to pay child support. i begin to worry when hatred of gays leads to giving a big "fuck you too" to their children.

needless to say...the irony of family values groups arguing against having a mother pay child support made me realize just how many of these interests groups get backed into a corner by their own rhetoric and are forced to advocate positions that make no sense given their purpose for existence. it happens on both sides of the political spectrum...and it sure as hell makes me with that more people my age paid attention. of course, with the state of public education, perhaps it is better that young people dont take a roll...but that is a whole nother topic for another time.