Days away from her seventh birthday, a little girl named Emma Rose is currently trapped in Georgia’s foster care system, unable to reunite with the woman who has been her mother for almost a year — all because the mother is a lesbian.
The prospective adoptive mother, Elizabeth Hadaway, was also sentenced to 10 days in jail earlier this month by a Wilkinson County Superior Court judge who refused to grant the adoption in part because “the child will have a long-term exposure to the homosexual parent’s lifestyle.”
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You guys gotta read the article in full, it's absolute crap (the Judge's point of view)
Ugh. I read the full article; two other judges seem to agree that the child is better off with the lesbian parent than left in the foster system.
I don't think fundies even realize how many lives they're destroying. Don't they think that maybe they should once, just once in the gay marriage/adoption debate, consider the feelings of the people this actually affects? You know, gay people? And children of them?
It never ceases to amaze me that as a gay man living in the 21st century United States I still face this kind of ingrained bigotry, driven by pure fear, on a pretty regular basis. And it's not like my partner and I are "in your face" about it, we're just living our lives honestly and that terrifies a lot of people. I feel very sorry for this woman and her little girl because I can certainly empathize.
Gah!
Why, is it illegal to be homosexual in Georgia? No? Then this judge is way out of line.
This is just... I'm so saddend and angry at the same time.
I've never met the person that is the judge in this case.no homosexual could ever be a good parent ever .
And judge? There have been studies done. One just came out recently in fact, saying that there are virutally no differences between chldren raised by heterosexual and cheldren reaised by homosexuals. In fact, it was thought that children raised by homosexuals did slightly better because of their high levels of tolerance for others.
To be fair, though, I don't know if the details of the study included people living in rural areas as the judge said the studies should be.
The judge...
Oh noez! It's JUDICIAL ACTIVISM! I'm sure the conservatives will be out very soon picketing with signs and shouting slogans.
Oh yeah, I'm sure long-term exposure to the foster care system will be much better for her than letting her have a loving parent. Soooooo much better. Oh man, and maybe, just maybe when she ages out of the system she can fall into the deep poverty and homelessness that a lot of other "aged-out" foster children fall into because she has no support system and only a little education to fall back on.
ANOTHER VICTORY FOR THE AMAZING FIVE: LOGIC, REASONING, ACCEPTANCE, COMMON SENSE, AND MORALS!
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I'm trying to figure out what the ten days in jail was for. The article's quite vague on that.
From the article:
"Parrott’s ruling ordered Emma Rose to be returned to Deborah Schultz within 10 days, or be declared a “deprived child” and turned over the Georgia Department of Family & Children Services. Hadaway and Shultz met at a truck stop in Jeffersonville, Ga., on Jan. 12, 2007, but Shultz refused to take Emma Rose back to Florida with her, instead reiterating her wish for Hadaway to raise the young girl.
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Upon discovering that Emma Rose remained in Hadaway’s custody, Parrott issued two more rulings: a Feb. 12 order to place Emma Rose in DFCS custody, and a March 23 ruling finding Hadaway and her attorney in criminal contempt for not following his order to transfer custody of the child. The two women were sentenced to 10 days in jail, or five days plus a $500 fine, but are currently appealing Parrott’s decision."
Confused?
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