Montana Upholds Same-Sex Partner's Parental Rights

Hurray! It's about time that lawmakers started ending the discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation found in many of these cases regarding adoption and child custody. A caregiver/parent who is fit and capable should never be excluded solely on the basis of their sexual orientation. Good for Montana. Hopefully other states will follow suit.

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Seems to me the result of this case should be that adoption rights get extended to gay partners. If the two women had been allowed to file honestly and jointly for adoption in the first place, this would have been a much more straightforward case. I wish these children well, and I hope the adults work out their problems for the kids' sake.

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Kudos to the Montana justices who took the first step in recognizing that families are defined by their relationships, not their genders. Adoption equality belongs to all people, not just those with the state's vision of the correct combination of genatilia. On a side note, I wish those who write about adoption would use the correct terminology. Adopted is a verb, not an adjective. Children were or will be adopted - they are not "adopted children."

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This comment on another site summed it up:

"It's very disturbing that someone who wants to get out of this lifestyle can still be trapped in it for years to come ... by someone who has no legal or adoptive relationship with the children."

Also, your title proves you people are super biased there Tom.....true journalism doesn't have a bias...

The very title you have is biased....I read the other titles around the country on this one and here they are:

Your Title: Montana Upholds Same-Sex Partner's Parental Rights

Others I found out there:
1) Montana Supremes Find for Lesbian Parent
2) Montana Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Lesbian Parent
3) Montana Supreme Court Finds for Lesbian Parent
4) Montana Supreme Court Rules Against Heterosexual Woman's Rights

See, these are non-biased.......

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Montana along with numerous other states and individuals ideas are very warped indeed. Is it really wise to allow this?

1 Corinthians 3:18, 19 says this: "Let no one be seducing himself: If anyone among YOU thinks he is wise in this system of things, let him become a fool, that he may become wise. 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God; for it is written: “He catches the wise in their own cunning."

What was Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed for? The account let's us know that it was so bad that the men and young boys of the city came to Lot's house and wanted to have intercourse with the angels that had materialized as men to warn Lot to get out before the impending destruction. Can we believe a God that does not bend his principles one way or another would view it different today? What does the Apostle Paul say in 1 Corinthians 6:9,10?

"What! Do YOU not know that unrighteous persons will not inherit God’s kingdom? Do not be misled. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men kept for unnatural purposes, nor men who lie with men, nor thieves, nor greedy persons, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit God’s kingdom."

It makes it very clear how God feels about and will deal with that kind of people. Is it the family arrangement he designed? No it is not. They fit the description Paul wrote to the Ephesians in

Ephesians 4:19. "Having come to be past all moral sense, they gave themselves over to loose conduct to work uncleanness of every sort with greediness."

Isn't it a shame that even churches not only allow them to be ministers in the church but also perform same sex marriages. And the so called wise governments sanction and allow it and now allow them to adopt and subject children to their depraved lifestye. Do same sex partners really have parental rights. Maybe in the eyes of those who are discreet and wise in their own eyes but not in God's eyes. This entire world is actually one big Sodom and Gomorrah and as foretold it is headed straight into to destruction at the hands of the only one that can carry out that prophesy. The book of 2 Corinthians says their end will be according to their works. Not a pretty picture. To say gay parents do not warp their children or influence their view of things is like saying straight parents do not influence their children. Any of us with common sense know better than that pile of nonsense. Gays should not be allowed to adopt children and if parents have enough sense they will not allow their children to have close association with them.

The Apostle Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 15:33 “Do not be misled, “Bad associations spoil useful habits.”

If these type of people are not approved by God does it not stand to reason that they are also bad association? After all can you expect to wash a pig, throw it into the pen with the other pigs and have it not wallow in the mire to?

If any out there reading this truly believe in God's written word then research this and draw your own conclusion. It's there.

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Rick: obviously all parents influence their children, but gay parents aren't trying to mold their children into the next generation of gays and just because a child is raised in a home with gay parents doesn't make them any more likely to be gay themselves. several studies have shown that children of gay parents tend to be more open to diversity, are well adjusted have less behaviour issues and more self-esteem than those raised in homes with straight parents. and who are you to judge others? if you were a true christian you wold never say such hateful things or use the word of god against others. i happen to be a christian, mother and a lesbian and i believe that if god didnt want me to be gay he wouldn't have made me. i believe he made me knowing exactly who i would be, what would be in my heart and who i would fall in love with. "they will know we are christians by our love" not our hate and judgmental attitudes

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