Two babies and their two gay fathers,Texas denies the right to have them-“they are gay”

                                                                             

There’s a story of incredible hatred towards gays at any price, including children’s future. In Dallas, you which is part of Texas and you know Texas!! A couple, Jason Hanna and Joe Riggs. A loving couple proven by their marriage to each other and the fight for their children. Let me see if I can explain what’s making them sick with pain. Hanna and Riggs got hitched in D.C., where gay marriages are legal. They came back to Dallas. They wanted kids.  They find an egg donor. They find a surrogate mother, who in April bears them twins, Lucas and Ethan. And — this is the real interesting part of this story — each of the men is a biological father to one of the babies, meaning, that two embryos were implanted. Amazing times!

But here’s where rubberl hits the asphalt because Texas doesn’t recognize Hanna and Riggs’ marriage, neither of the men’s names appears on either of the kid’s birth certificates. Only the surrogate mother’s name appears on the birth certificates, and, remember, she has no biological relationship to the babies (well, except for that nine months of gestation, which I wont minimize but she was approving of this). To recap you have 2 babies 2 fathers, no mothers. Who should have the kids if the fathers are married, responsible, financially stable men?

This is the description GLAAD gives to the fathers: "In many ways, Jason and Joe have the makings of a picture-perfect family. A couple of six years based in Dallas, the two married last year in Washington DC. Since then, they took further steps to make their dream family a reality by connecting with CharLynn, the woman who would become their surrogate. This was her fourth surrogacy, but her first time working with a gay couple, and the three were thrilled to join together.”

“This case clearly illustrates the concrete harms that LGBTQ families face on a daily basis in states like Texas, which have few protections in place for them," said Family Equality CouncilExecutive Director, Gabriel Blau. “This judge was wrong on moral, ethical, and legal grounds.  It is time for judges and others in positions of authority to put the best interests of children first. Judges and lawmakers should stop denying loving, committed families the protections they need to take care of one another. As the patchwork of laws affecting LGBTQ families across this country continue to cause uncertainty, we will continue to push for both legal and lived equality for all families, and we are grateful to Jason and Joe for standing up and telling their story.”

As this maligned community of millions obtains overdue human and civil rights denied to them for an unknown piece of history and centuries, here in this country in which pride itself in Lincoln’s emancipation proclamation and amendment to the constitution that says”all man are created equal” which we and most of the courts including the Supreme Court up to now, interprets as every human being, be a woman, child, citizen or not, belongs to any liquid sexuality which could be straight, gay, lesbian, transexual or bisexual. 

Treated equal is the last thing that happens in most of Texas. This case which might seem unusual because you have technology playing a role, still the babies are not technology and neither are the parents, they are human beings, they are two fathers and their DNA and genes which are in these two babies. The t woman involved is not the biological mother, she agreed to serve as the means to have the eggs implanted and have them born through her. Yet she has been asked by the fathers to be part of the family. The babies’ posses not her DNA but the fathers. She was agreeable to this like thousands of women do every year to mainly straight couples in which they cannot have children because of his low sperm count or a number of other reasons.

What do you think? Two biological fathers married to each other legally as couple and two babies which biologically belongs to them and the state of Texas. Should they go to an institution of the state of Texas if the non biological mother can not have them? I think this is not an Einstein question. The two kids, married father and non biological mother should be a family as intended.

Adam Gonzalez, Publisher