Ummm - maybe they don't really want marriage equality.

Homosexuals might want to rethink this marriage equality thing. When the marriages aren't what they expect, some very real legal issues pop up. For example, they've found out they can't get a divorce in Texas, because we in Texas don't let queers marry each other. If they want a divorce, they'll just have to go back to the state that "married" them and establish residency there.

Now they've found out that if they want to play house, the Florida courts are going to take them at their word. A couple of lesbians decided they wanted a baby. Naturally, being in an unnatural relationship precluded nature from providing them with a child. So they took matters into their own hands. One of them had her egg extracted, fertilized by an unknown sperm, and planted into her partner (the medical "professional" who assisted in this farce should have his license yanked). At any rate, love didn't reign supreme for long, and the women who loved each other unto death decided death was too far away. So the mama who carried the baby (hereinafter referred to as "the womb") absconded with the child. The mama who gave the egg (hereinafter referred to as "the hen") wants the baby (now a young child) back.

The womb says that under Florida law, a person who donates an egg or sperm renounces all parental rights. The hen says that the child is biologically hers and that the womb has no biological rights to the child. The Florida Supreme Court says the cited law doesn't apply, because this couple clearly presented themselves to the world as a family. The hen considered the womb a mama until they decided to split. The court noted the couple's "use of funds from their joint bank account, their statements to the reproductive doctor . . . the counseling . . . for parenthood, the use of a hyphenated name for the child, and the joint birth announcement."

So the womb doesn't get the child, and the hen doesn't get the child. They must assume joint custody. How sad that in all that, what was best for the child was never mentioned.

"Lesbian custody battle settled." The Dallas Morning News; November 8, 2013; p. 6a.