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A Little Girl Called ‘M.C.’

18 Sunday Nov 2012

Posted by blogsense-by-barb in America, Attitudes, blogsense, Character, citizenship, FREEDOM, Lifestyle, Moral Character, Opinion, People, thoughts, WE THE PEOPLE, Women's Issues

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A Little Girl Called ‘M.C.’

The Collateral Damage from Same-Sex Marriage

By Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D

This article was first published September 25, 2012, at Break Point.org.

The policy proposal known as “same-sex marriage” is actually a proposal to redefine marriage. Instead of being a gender-based institution oriented toward the procreation of children and the good of the spouses, what is called “same-sex marriage” makes marriage into a genderless institution, oriented toward the good of adults only. Any possible negative consequences for children, according to this way of thinking, are not worth considering. We, and the children themselves, must simply accept any negative outcomes as collateral damage on the road to the nirvana of “marriage equality.”

A little girl known only to the public as M.C. is a public victim of the redefinition of marriage in California. If lukewarm Christians are tempted to sit out the marriage battle because they find it too contentious and emotional, they might give a moment’s thought to the situation of M.C.

Little M.C. was born in March 2009, to a woman named Melissa. Melissa had contracted a marriage with a woman named Irene in October 2008, during the window of time that same-sex marriage was permitted in California. Melissa had become pregnant with M.C. by a man named Jesus in the summer of 2008, prior to the state-sanctioned “marriage” ceremony.

Melissa and M.C. lived with Irene for 3or 4 weeks after M.C.’s birth. When Melissa moved out, Irene attempted to obtain joint legal and physical custody of M.C. Melissa got in touch with Jesus, the child’s father, who had since moved to Oklahoma. He sent her money, and stayed in contact with her.

Melissa was not happy with Irene’s continuing attempts to be involved with her and M.C. In September 2009, Melissa’s new boyfriend, José, attacked Irene, stabbing her so severely that she had to be hospitalized. Melissa was imprisoned, charged with accessory to attempted murder.

M.C. was taken into foster care. At that point, the urgent question arose: Who are her parents? Who can and should care for M.C. while her mother, Melissa, serves her prison sentence?

The courts found that M.C., for all intents and purposes, had three parents, recognized under different parts of the law. Melissa counted as a mother because she gave birth to the child. Irene was married to Melissa when Melissa gave birth to M.C. The courts applied a concept called the presumption of paternity. Under that concept, a woman’s husband is presumed to be the father of any children she gives birth to during the life of their union. Thanks to the redefinition of marriage to be a genderless institution, the family courts felt obligated to do a gender-neutral reading of this statute, transforming the “presumption of paternity” into a gender-neutral “presumption of parentage.”

Therefore, Irene counted as a presumed mother, or maybe I should say a “presumed generic parent.” However, she was not in any position to take care of M.C. in the short term, due to her injuries from being stabbed. She also had a history of domestic violence.

What about Jesus? No court ever denied that Jesus was a father. Nor did any court find him an unfit father in any way. So with Melissa in prison and Irene in the hospital, why couldn’t the court simply give M.C. to Jesus, her biological father?

The courts declined to place M.C. with Jesus because this would jeopardize what they saw as the child’s interest in reunification with Irene. Bear in mind that Irene was not the biological mother. She was not an adoptive mother. She had lived with Melissa and M.C. for about three or four weeks after the child was born. Irene, in short, was not a mother to M.C. in any meaningful sense.

Irene was a “presumed” mother for one reason and one reason only: same-sex marriage. That marriage is what prompted the court to call Irene a “presumed mother,” under a gender-neutral reading of the Uniform Parentage Act.

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SMALL GOVERNMENT ≠ NO GOVERNMENT

18 Sunday Nov 2012

Posted by blogsense-by-barb in America, American History, blogsense, Character, citizenship, Current Events, FREEDOM, government, Lifestyle, Moral Character, Opinion, Patriotism, thoughts, US Constritution, WE THE PEOPLE, Women's Issues

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SMALL GOVERNMENT ≠ NO GOVERNMENT

68 New Regulations every day! That is what we have under the Obama regime. Stacks and stacks of paper piling us under unnecessary and redundant regulations, many with fines attached. PHOOEY! “President Barack Obama’s administration withheld some of the most controversial environmental and healthcare regulations during October so as not to jeopardize his reelection chances. However, the federal government has still posted an average of 68 regulations and notices a day for the last three months.”

So … Why is this a problem? It limits my freedom and yours!

The Obama administration adds 68 new regulations per day!

Does this mean we want NO REGULATIONS? Uh, let me think … NO! Just for contrast’s sake, let’s look at how GOD did regulations.

Originally, there were 5 BOOKS of regulations contained in the Old Covenant/Testament- The Pentateuch, or Torah, which consists of the first five books of the Bible (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, & Deuteronomy.) These are the Books of the Law given by GOD to the Israelite nation.

Exodus 20 contains the Ten Commandments. These are’]ppppp the outline for the “government” of GOD, and though He went on to explain these rules in phenomenal detail, the rules didn’t change or expand. Then later, under the New Covenant, Jesus gave two Laws:


    36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?”

    37 Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’[a] 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”

Jesus was not negating the Ten Commandments or the other “Laws” of the Torah. He was paraphrasing them into an easy to grasp, condensed version. He was not doing away with the Law, but simplifying it for easier compliance.

One does not have to be a Christian to buy this concept any more than one must be a Christian to be moral. All of the major religions share relatively identical moral codes and admonish its devotees to live in peace with one another, except Islam. Our morality does not rely on identical personal beliefs, but it is essential to have a moral code of absolutes as the foundation for a civilization. No one has ever suggested since the Constitution was framed that any specific religion be declared the law of the land, and heaven forbid it ever come to that. In other words, it is obviously not necessary to be a Christian to understand that murder is morally wrong. Does one have to be a Christian to understand that incest or adultery are morally wrong? NO! We know these things in the depths of our being because we are humans. While many of these “sinful” behaviors are also “unlawful,” one need not be a Christian or a Mormon or a Catholic to perceive them as morally wrong and detrimental to society. Still they can all be contained in the simple concept of the Golden Rule.

At the rate of 68 new regulations a day, who on this earth is able to keep up? Who even keeps track of whether the new regulations contradict or modify former regulations? The Obama administration, like other before it, seem intent on micromanagement of the American people. Micromanagement, if you’ve ever experienced it, depresses creativity, ingenuity, and motivation. Those of us who work under the supervision of someone else understand the loss of freedom some supervisors can impose. The end may be the same, but forced to do things the supervisor’s way restricts my own ability to do it my own way.

The point is, the more regulations pushed onto us, the less liberty we have to make our own decisions and pursue our own brand of happiness as guaranteed us by our unchanging Constitution! We’re all familiar with KISS – Keep it simple, sweetheart! The Golden Rule (the Great Commandment above) is a paraphrase of the 10 Commandments. If we are loving (as in caring about) our neighbor, we will not steal his goods or his wife. We will not hurt his children or his property. We will not speak untruths about him or his family members. If we understand what caring about our neighbor means, we don’t need the details spelled out for us. We can actually figure it out ourselves, at least, most of us are able to do this, right?

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18 Sunday Nov 2012

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“Your blog uses a domain subscription that has expired. Please visit your My Upgrades page to renew.”

This is the heading across my dashboard. I have no understanding of its purpose or meaning! Any help would be appreciated! lol

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18 Sunday Nov 2012

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Excellent – So often we underestimate the value of the past. History = His story … The story of Christ as His influence spread across the earth.

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It was John Winthrop, Governor of Massachusetts in the early seventeenth century who uttered the phrase used by so many politicians since.

For we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. Soe that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause him to withdraw his present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword throughout the world. 

President Reagan, of course, used it in his great farewell address to the Nation on 11 January 1989, when he thanked the American people for ‘the chance to serve’. How much, in that simple phrase, he caught the essence of Christian leadership – that he who is first should be the servant of all. There was no arrogance of power and office in President Reagan. He came from…

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18 Sunday Nov 2012

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Check it out, Patriots! Where do we go from here?

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