Domestic Partnerships and Homosexual Adoption: What’s Ahead with the New Mexico Bill
Last month an Associate Director from Duke University in Durham, NC pleaded guilty to Sexual Exploitation of a Minor. Mr. Frank M. Lombard, 43, and his partner Kenneth Shipp adopted a now five-year-old African American boy. A web cast of the boy being molested by his adopted father was sent along with an offer of sex to among others, an undercover police officer.
According to the police report Mr. Lombard bragged to the officer that, “the abuse of the child was easier when the child was too young to talk or know what was happening, but that he had drugged the child with Benadryl during the molestation.” Mr. Lombard will be sentenced March 30.
Studies such as the one conducted by Dr. Judith Reisman, Ph.D., suggest that homosexuals are 40 times more likely to than the general public to molest.
New Mexico’s Domestic Partnerships legislation, Senate Bill 183, was introduced by Santa Fe Senator Peter Wirth and Albuquerque Representative Mimi Stewart. The bill would make a “man and his boyfriend” eligible to adopt in the state of New Mexico. More on this tomorrow.
What’s In the “Domestic Partnerships” Bill?
The Domestic Partnerships Senate Bill 183 is legislation that gives people living together the same rights as persons who are married but, primarily because of opposition by the Catholic Church, the arrangement is not called a marriage.
The 816-page bill includes “domestic partnership” language wherever the following are mentioned:
“marriage, prior marriage, marital, not married, spouse, spousal, former spouse, prospective spouse, surviving spouse, legal spouse, deceased or former spouse, death of a spouse, member spouse, out-of-state spouse, beneficiary’s spouse, trustee’s spouse, personal representative of the spouse, wife, husband, widow, widower, divorced, family, survivor father, father-in-law, mother, mother-in-law, son, son-in-law, daughter, daughter-in-law, brother, brother-in-law, sister, sister-in-law , former domestic partners, married mother, born out of wedlock, spouse’s child, stepparent, stepparent’s marriage, guardian, custodian, ancestor, inmate’s legal spouse, child of the marriage, issue of the marriage, household member, beneficiary’s child, adult, parent, parent of the adoptee; deceased minor, childless, adoption of a child, premarital, born out of wedlock, parent’s parent, brother, sister, divorce, dissolution, annulment, [or] remarriage, premarital or post marital, prospective, existing or previous marital, participants or their beneficiaries, testator, testator’s surviving spouse, annulment, deaths of husband and wife, death of the decedent, incapacitated person, conservator, unmarried, alimony, common law, designated family member, legal separation, annulment”
Supporters of Domestic Partnerships such as Todd McElroy of Equality New Mexico want us to believe that people who live together deserve the same rights as those who marry. The above language, Equality New Mexico insists, is not equal to marriage. They maintain that marriage will not be the end result of this legislation, and that their efforts are only to allow for an equality of rights granted to people of any sexual orientation who cannot or will not marry.
Equality New Mexico has admitted privately that homosexual marriage is the expected result of their efforts. Other results would be that church teaching on homosexuality and homosexual behavior would be further targeted. Social services that do not recognize these relationships as valid would also end, and recruitment into these lifestyles would increase.
This legislation will be heard by the Senate Committees’ Committee.
Express your opposition to this Domestic Partnership legislation by calling the Governor and committee members. They can be reached by calling the following:
Governor Bill Richardson (D) (505) 476-2200
Senate Committees’ Committee Members are:
Chair Senator Timothy Z. Jennings (D) (505) 986-4733
Vice Chair Senator Michael S. Sanchez (D) (505) 986-4727
Senator Carlos R. Cisneros (D) (505) 986-4365
Member Senator Mary Jane M. Garcia (D) (505) 986-4726
Member Senator Stuart Ingle (R) (505) 986-4702
Member Senator Timothy M. Keller (D) (505) 986-4260
Member Senator George K. Munoz (D) (505) 986-4387
Member Senator Cynthia Nava (D) (505) 986-4834
Member Senator William H. Payne (R) (505) 986-4703
Member Senator William E. Sharer (R) (505) 986-4381
Member Senator John Arthur Smith (D) (505) 986-4363
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