BAVARIAN FAMILY VALUES: Stopping Federal Gay Adoption Rights

[Kellanved]

The state of Bavaria has filed a lawsuit in Germany's Federal Constitutional Court in an effort to prevent homosexual couples from being allowed to adopt children.

When two Bavarian lesbians set out to start a family, they wanted a sperm donor, not a father. When they describe what the father did to help them have their baby, they call it "friendly assistance." Today their three-year-old daughter calls them "Mama" and "Mami." And under new legislation enacted in Germany at the start of the year, the two hope to finally obtain equal parental rights to their child. "Mami," who stroked her partner's belly during the pregnancy, has filed a petition to adopt the child.

But then another man came into the picture, throwing a wrench into this modern family's chance at happiness. He's Bavarian governor Edmund Stoiber, a member of the conservative Christian Social Union (CSU). His state government is taking a case to the Federal Constitutional Court, Germany's highest court, in an attempt to reverse the new law, which permits homosexual partners to adopt children, as long as they satisfy certain requirements. The Bavarian officials are trying to preserve what they call the "traditional trinity" of the German family -- father, mother, child.

Guido Westerwelle, leader of the opposition Free Democratic Party (FDP), has characterized Stoiber's move as nothing short of a "renaissance of narrow-mindedness." Stoiber, in turn, is convinced it is his duty to rescue the German constitution. For the benefit of the child, he says, the state should prevent people from becoming adoptive parents when their living situation "is incompatible with the guiding principles of the constitution and with the role of mother and father." In other words, adoption should be reserved for married people.

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http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,353942,00.html

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Considering the the Bavarian governor Stoiber managed to get as much of a Hilliary Clinton endorsement as was possible, I have to wonder about her politics. (and her general habit of supporting the European right).

[Smarmie Doofus]

1. Stop wondering. Hillary is all things to all people...

but is never really there when you need her on a difficult issue that requires courage and/or leadership.

Re. the Germans: I'm shocked. (Really) I thought they were past all this nonsense about gays being parents ( and about gays in general). So the Bavarian thinks it's better for the child to be an orphan if the biomom dies.

He's a compassionate son of a gun.