Montana Supreme Court weighs gay parental rights

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(Missoula, Montana) A Montana woman wants the state Supreme Court to overturn a lower court ruling that gave visitation and other parental rights to her former partner.

Barbara Maniaci wants the justices to overturn a 2008 lower court ruling that said her former partner, Michelle Kulstad, must be recognized as a co-parent to the two children the two women had been raising until their breakup.

Maniaci and Kulstad had been in a 10-year relationship until it ended in 2006. Under state law, the women had no legal recognition as a couple and could not jointly adopt.

In 2001, Maniaci adopted an infant boy and in 2004 she adopted a baby girl. Kulstad, until the separation in 2006, jointly cared for the children. When Maniaci refused to allow her to see the children after the breakup, Kulstad went to court.

The lower court granted Kulstad time with her children and ordered that Kulstad have joint decision-making authority for matters significantly affecting the children, including their “education, activities, health care and spiritual upbringing.”

At the Supreme Court on Friday, Maniaci argued through her lawyers from the Alliance Defense Fund - a legal organization that regularly fights LGBT issues - that she is no longer gay and now is married to a man and she is a “fit, natural parent,” and that she is being “prevented from raising her children with her husband in the way they see fit.”

http://www.365gay.com/news/montana-supreme-court-weighs-gay-parental-rights/

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1. She is "no longer gay"??? So is she "shorter gay"??

That whole story is just...well, bizarre.
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People are what they are WRT sexual orientation. Gay people don't "become" heterosexual and ...so on. arrrgggghh