Gay dad fighting visitation limits


We're not being told the whole story here, but there is bias against the dad anyway
Another of those reluctant defender things that ensnares me from time to time.

I'm straight. But because I don't believe it's government's business which consenting adults you sleep with or how you sleep with them, I have to take a stand sometimes.

Like here.

The order was entered Oct. 1, 2007, by Fayette County Superior Court Judge Christopher Edwards as part of the divorce case between Eric Mongerson and Sandy Ehlers. Mongerson has appealed this issue and several others to the Georgia Supreme Court.

Edwards ordered that neither of the parents could have “overnight company with a member of the opposite sex, or with any person deemed to be a paramour, unrelated by blood or marriage, in the presence of a child.”

One sentence later Edwards wrote: “Additionally, defendant is prohibited from exposing the children to his homosexual partners and friends.”

In his appeal, Mongerson’s attorneys write that such an order was an abuse of the court’s discretion.

“There was no evidence presented that and the court made no finding that exposing the parties’ children to any of Appellant’s homosexual friends would adversely affect the best interests of the children,” according to the appeal. “Therefore, such a prohibition on appellant’s homosexual friends is an abuse of discretion.”

But Ehlers’ attorney claims that there was such evidence as the oldest daughter testified that she had “found one of my dad’s magazines that had nude men in it doing things to each other.”

The article does go on to describe the older children's accusations against the father. Which, if they happened, certainly would fit my definition of abuse.

But to single out gay sex partners, it's hard to see any legal justification for that.

I don't know how much is hearsay and how much isn't. I don't know if the older kids have been coached, and I don't know if those kids have issues with their dad.

But I have to wonder, if it had been straight porn, would it have become an issue in court?

— NeoWayland

Posted: Tue - February 3, 2009 at 01:12 PM  Tag


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