Monday, June 22, 2009

Lesbian Divorce

Some lesbian news today. Haha I don't discriminate against lesbians here or off line so I am going to tell you the big lesbian news from Rhode Island. It's that a lesbian couple who were married in Massachusetts (where lesbian marriage is legal), has just been the first lesbian couple to file a court divorce case.
It makes sense that lesbians also divorce, but the news media is so focused on reporting gay marriage it shifts us away from ever thinking about the subject of gay divorce. This case presents the question of whether a court in a state where the lesbians weren't married (it is not legal for lesbians to wed in Rhode Island) has jurisdiction when they file for divorce there? More simply, if it is illegal for lesbians to marry in Rhode Island does a court have the legal right to hear a divorce a case involving lesbians?
The couple who filed for the divorce cited "irreconcilable differences, as the reason for splitting. So the court has to determine whether the state of Rhode Island will recognize the couple's marriage that was obtained in another state (Massachusetts) by deciding to grant a divorce to them. If the court grants a divorce then it is, in effect, is saying the lesbian marriage (or any homosexual marriage) is legal in Rhode Island.
My belief is that the court must hear this case, based on the "full faith and credit clause " (Gee, I am glad I paid attention in school the day they taught about that clause) of the U.S .Constitution. This part of the constitution says that one state must recognize the laws of another. Since the lesbian divorce couple were legally married in Massachusetts, the Rhode Island court should accept their marriage and hear their divorce plea.
So, do you belief gay and lesbian couples can marry? If so, they must be granted divorce rights, which in turn means they are married equally (with heterosexual couples) in the eyes of the law. My latest "I hate s cell phones because they are abused so often" report is an example why age has no barrier to cell abuse. How about a 7 year old cell abuser? It's bad enough that a 7 year old would have a phone, but this one is an early abuser and seems already as obnoxious as the adult cell addicts are. Here's what happened to the 7 year old cell nut.
Police in Round Rock, Texas got 49 emergency 911 calls in a matter of minutes and were stumped as to who was doing it., The phone was an unregistered one, the caller would say nothing, would hang up and sometimes merely giggle. (sounds to me like the typical cell nut strategy). But eventually, the police nabbed the abuser- a 7 year old boy who was calling from his elementary school classroom.
Police say the boy was doing it for fun (that's also what the adult addicts say when they chatter annoyingly everywhere I walk!) and that because the phone had been deactivated with no account attached, the only number that would work is the 911 call. After using a cell tower to trace the area where from which the calls were emanating and hearing chattering in the background of the calls that sounded like school kids, they checked a local elementary school and found the 7 year old addict.
Because of his age the child has not been charged with making abusive calls. But I commend the a school for training another cell addict who is already fully annoying at such a young age.

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