Alabama High Court Should Uphold State Sovereignty to Protect the Welfare of Children

Apr 1, 2009

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Liberty Counsel is filing a brief today at the Alabama Supreme Court in a case involving a child caught between two same-sex partners split between California and Alabama. The Alabama Court of Appeals ruled that the state must recognize and enforce a California decision, declaring that a former same-sex partner with no biological or adoptive relationship has parental rights.

The legislature, courts and citizens of Alabama have spoken with unmistakable clarity on the issue of family relationships but one unelected state court judge sitting 2,500 miles away has attempted to dictate his own opinion to the State of Alabama.

This unelected judge, who is not accountable to the citizens of either state, ruled that Alabama must extend the mother-child relationship to so-called “presumed mothers” who have no biological, adoptive or other legal connection to the child.

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