Lesbian Moms Again in Forefront of New Marriage Cases
At Mombian.com – July 11, 2013
The past couple of weeks have seen a new round of progress in several marriage-equality lawsuits—and just as with the cases that brought down the Defense of Marriage Act and California’s Proposition 8 (as I wrote a few weeks ago), lesbian moms are again in the forefront, along with a number of gay dads. Two of the cases (in Michigan and North Carolina) even began as challenges to state bans on second-parent adoptions, and later evolved into marriage-ban challenges as well.
Let’s take things alphabetically:
- In Illinois, Lambda Legal and the ACLU have asked for speedy summary judgment in two marriage-equality cases. More than half the the plaintiff couples in Lambda Legal’s Darby v. Orr lawsuit are parents, including moms LaKeesha Harris and Janean Watkins, Michelle Chappell and Michelle Franke, Theresa Volpe and Mercedes Santos, Angelica Lopez and Claudia Mercado, Daphne Scott-Henderson and Ryan Cannon, Patricia Garcia and Julie Barton, and Anne Dickey and Laura Hartman, as well as dads Daryl Rizzo and Jaime Garcia, Robert Hickok and Brian Fletcher, and Brandon and Kevin Bowersox-Johnson.
- In the ACLU’s Illinois Lazaro v. Orr lawsuit, again more than half the the plaintiff couples are parents, including moms Tanya Lazaro and Elizabeth “Liz” Matos, Lynn Sprout and Kathie Spegal, Michelle Mascaro and Corynne Romine, and Kirsten and Tanya Lyonsford, as well as dads Carlos Briones and Richard Rykhus.
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