Michigan Attorney General Screwed Up In The Head

[filkertom]

From MLive.com:

The opinion, written by Attorney General Mike Cox, said a same-sex marriage performed in another state is invalid in Michigan and therefore precludes that couple from obtaining a joint adoption here.

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Cox wrote in his opinion that, while same-sex couples cannot adopt a child in the state, one partner may do so as a single person.

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Jay Kaplan, a staff attorney for the Michigan branch of the American Civil Liberties Union, said if one partner in same-sex couple adopts a child, the other partner would have no legal obligation to the adopted child.

"If only one parent can be legally recognized, how is that helping the child?" he said.

State Sen. Bill Hardiman, R-Kentwood, who requested the opinion, said marriage is an institution between one man and one woman and only married couples should be able to adopt.

"It's not that I'm against gays, but I do support marriage as it has been defined in this country," Hardiman said.

Sooooo... one mommy or one daddy is not as good as one mommy and one daddy, but it's better than two mommies or two daddies...?

Comments

[dbcooper.livejournal.com]

This is what comes of letting politicians try to tell us how to live. Is there any chance we could start a rehabilitation program for attorneys general like yours? Perhaps we could teach him a useful skill, such as how to bake a pie.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'm not gonna let the guy play with knives, rolling pins, and a heat source....

[drzarron.livejournal.com]

Its a sad state of affairs indeed. When Bush started making noises about a federal ban on gay marriages, I dashed off notes to all my congress critters. My take was that I was infavor of allowing gay marriages, but the Fed should leave it to the states and the voters there in to define marriage, it wasn't the Feds business.

Carl Levin (or one of his minions) emailed me back stating that he agreed that it wasn't a Federal manner.

Joe Knowlenberg snail mailed me back with this long letter saying that HE was one of the co authors of the "Defense of Marriage" act and that, in essense, the voters couldn't be trusted with such an important decision.

Don't you just LOVE politicos?

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

I truly wish that members of our "representative" government would remember that they're supposed to, y'know, represent. Which means educating the populace as well as just reacting to opinion... or presuming theirs is automatically better.

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

Reprehensible. For all that the anti-abortionists want to force extra babies to be born, they don't want thousands of willing adoptive parents to take care of the ones already in the world.

[dbcooper.livejournal.com]

Yikes! Good point. So, we should probably fold him into a program for other people who are a danger to themselves and others.

[dbcooper.livejournal.com]

Something else I just realized...what about the "full faith and credit" clause of the U.S. Constitution, which mandates that anything legally recognized in one state must be legally recognized in another? Does the honorable Mr. Cox now believe this is optional?

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

Oh, that only counts for things Republicans approve of. Just like due process, separation of powers, freedom of speech, the right to assemble, or anything else in the Constitution.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Repeat after me: Eye-Oh-Kay-Eye-Yar.

It's OKay If You're A Republican.

[kengr]

The (spit!) "Defense of Marriage Act" *specifically* exempts gay marriages from that sectiuon of the Constitution.

If *I* was on the Supreme Court, I'd take great pleasure in telling Congress that not only was said law unconstitutional, but any other attempts to make an end run around that section would be viewed very dimly.

Alas, I'm not a Justice. And God(dess) only knows what they'll do when presented with the problem.

[dbcooper.livejournal.com]

Sadly, they seem a bit on the conservative side, but they've smacked down similarly horrible legislation before in the past decade. I would dearly love for them to not only bitchslap this particular ridiculous bill, but call the sponsors and authors before them for a stern tonguelashing.

This is why I should be a Supreme Court Justice. We need trash talk in the nation's highest court. :)