A Lesbian couple “married” in California is seeking a divorce in Maryland which stills says “You are not married.”
Never let a manufactured crisis go to waste.
Maryland’s highest court is poised to hear arguments in a precedent-setting case involving two women who married in California but were denied a divorce in Maryland, which does not currently allow same-sex weddings.
The Court of Appeals of Maryland in Annapolis was set to hear arguments Friday from lawyers for the lesbian couple who are seeking to end their marriage. A Maryland judge declined to grant their divorce in 2010, basing his decision on the conclusion that the women’s marriage is not valid under Maryland law.
But lawyers for the women disagree, saying the state should recognize gay marriages performed elsewhere even though Maryland does not allow same-sex weddings at the present time. As a result, the couple should be allowed to divorce in the state, the lawyers say.
Even though Maryland is set to recognize Gay Marriage next year, the precedent set by this case risks forcing states that do not recognize gay marriage to recognize it whether they like it or not. Divorce destroys marriage. Gay “marriage” destroys marriage. Together they make a lethal combination.
April 8, 2012 at 12:22 am
So, let me get this straight…two women are seeking not to be partners anymore in a state that doesn't recognize that they are partners anyway. And the problem is…????
April 8, 2012 at 12:23 am
In other words, what the heck do they want that they don't already have?
April 8, 2012 at 5:25 am
Death by a thousand cuts. I loved America and miss her.
April 8, 2012 at 9:44 pm
When the state defines marriage, the state will destroy it…eagerly. Marriage and families are hindrances to state power. These are engineered test cases, probably planned from the get-go, just as "feminism" has been. Marriage is the Churches province, the state has no right messing with private property, creating "safety nets" by redistributing confiscated wealth (which is the only legitimate gripe these homosexuals have…that they are entitled to benefits they pay into). By advancing the whole Marxist socialist agenda (and yes, that is what "social safety nets" ARE) we see that the state inexorably destroys any vestige of individual choice, private property, the right to contract, and religious freedom. We must assimilate into one brown, conforming, pansexual borg serving the greater good as defined by elites uncoonstrained by the chains they forge for us. I feel so PROTECTED. At least I'm not being killed by "terrorists", right?
April 9, 2012 at 5:14 am
The problem this highlights is that most states DO NOT have residency requirements for marriage but DO have residency requirements for divorce.
This means that if a couple gets married in, say, Vermont, and then tries to get divorced in, say Texas, they might not be able to if Texas does not recognize their marriage.
I've been seeing quite a bit about this on politically conservative blogs that masquerade as religious blogs. Almost universally, these folks are not campaigning against divorce or to prevent divorce generally in the civil law. Instead, they just relish the concept of denying certain people access to the courts because of one sin that conservatives obsess over.
I hope there are sincere folks out there, too, but I have my doubts.