Yesterday, California’s Supreme Court ruled that the same rules that hold absentee fathers who are not married to the mother apply to estranged homosexual couples who used reproductive science to conceive. This ruling accepted same sex couples as lawful parents. The court followed the precedent they set in an earlier case where a man was held to be the legal father of a child when he established himself as the father figure despite not being married to the mother or being the biological father to the child. The court stated that they “perceive no reason why both parents of a child cannot be women.” The case is available for download on the California Supreme Court website as Elsie B. v. Superior Court of El Dorado County and two other cases on the same issue.
The State Of . . .Gay parental rights has been strengthened by this ruling. Apparently, a kid can have two mommies in California. Were the Justices “activists”? They looked to the law of the land and their previous cases. Did they ignore the traditional paradigm of parenthood? Court have long recognized that the traditional model of a mommy and daddy doesn’t apply to everyone. But don’t the teachings of the Bible go against it? If the court looked to the bible, wouldn’t they be looking outside of caselaw and therefore be activist?
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