The Reason Ireland’s Supreme Court Will let This Gay Sperm Donor Can See His Son?
Because the son’s parents are two lesbian women, and Ireland doesn’t recognize them as a legal family unit, despite the European Convention of Human Rights Act. Justice: 1; Injustice: 1. [Irish Times]
Queerty, please learn how to put a sentence together. This is getting ridiculous.
@No. 1 Tierceguy:
Its not just the run-on sentence grammar problem, this issue is much bigger than a single paragraph let alone a single sentence.
I read the Irish Times article, and, their analysis is quite confusing. To truly understand the Court’s ruling, an objective reporter should read the Court’s ruling and the minority opinions. I am not an objective reporter, and Queerty is not either. (I don’t believe Queerty pretends to be more than raising issues and opinion pieces.)
What can be gleaned from the Irish Times report is that Ireland is struggling, like many countries including the United States, to incorporate rights of LGBT citizens into long histories where no such rights existed. While the decision could have been brighter had the Court more clearly illuminated stronger rights for LGBT, it is significant that this issue is being litigated and gay rights are emerging.
The good news is that gay rights are emerging even in Catholic Church strongholds throughout the world, notably in Ireland where civil union legislation is being debated, Spain which has legalized same-sex marriage, and many in-roads in South America.
Alas, much work is left to do, i.e., Uganda.
‘The Reason Ireland’s Supreme Court Will let This Gay Sperm Donor Can See His Son?’
Huh?
Considering Ireland only legalised *divorce* less then twenty years ago, they could be doing a lot worse.
“The Ladies of ABC Ask Adam Lambert Whether He’s Hurt By The Ladies Of ABC Censor Him”
“The Reason Ireland’s Supreme Court Will let This Gay Sperm Donor Can See His Son?”
Who is writing the headlines today, an ESL class?
So Queerty thinks that a gay man whose sperm gets a woman pregnant should lose his parental rights? Why is that?
The lesbian mothers didn’t require the father to surrender his parental rights before agreeing to have a child from his sperm, although they could have done so. How can they turn around now and insist that he has no parental rights? He’s the kid’s father, for fucks sake.
So much for the notion of queer families as being inclusive.