• U.S.’ political influence at risk; Same-sex parenting U.S.’ political influence at risk; Same-sex parenting Aftonbladet, Stockholm, Sweden, Aug. 24, 2005 The U.S.A. has certainly achieved economic control over Iraq, but is in risk of losing political influence. The Shiite
• U.S.’ political influence at risk; Same-sex parenting
U.S.’ political influence at risk; Same-sex parenting
Aftonbladet, Stockholm, Sweden, Aug. 24, 2005
The U.S.A. has certainly achieved economic control over Iraq, but is in risk of losing political influence. The Shiite majority is resting on two political parties, more or less allied with Iran. The religious leader (Grand Ayatollah Ali) al-Sistani is literally Iranian. An Iranian intelligence chief tells the New York Review of Books: “Throughout Iraq, the people we support are in power.”
According to American news agencies, the Shiites have had the following written into the proposed constitution: No law can be contradictory to Islamic norms. Islam is the main source for the laws.
The Iraq war could lead to a massively increased Iranian and fundamentalist power — as well as a political-religious power that may soon be equipped with weapons of mass destruction.
The political irony could not be darker than that.
L.A. Daily News, Aug. 24, 2005
The decision Monday by the California Supreme Court on the rights and responsibilities of same-sex parenting is the only logical conclusion the panel could have reached. No matter your personal feelings about homosexuality, the reality is that gay couples can and do have children in any number of ways. And people who bring children into this world must also have the continuing responsibilities of parenthood.
The court ruled in three cases affecting women who have split with their same-sex partner and declared that despite not having a biological link to the children of their partner, they are subject to the same custody and child-support laws as fathers.
In taking this stand, the justices ignored the contentious politics of the gay marriage debate and took the side of the children who don’t get to chose the families or circumstances they are born into.
