Here's a tough one Gay mom's daughters head for the hills.
HOUSTON (KHOU) -- Two teenage girls say that they can no longer live with their mother because she is gay. They've asked the state to take them in, but it says it won't interfere with this family that's divided.
Inside a Missouri City home two teenage girls packed their bags and moved out. Seventeen-year-old Keena Green and her 15-year-old sister, Nikki, are no longer living with their mom.
A mom who says that they were kidnapped. "Yes, I know that they were," says Kilma Green.
She says a church called the Body of Christ kidnapped them. Keena and Nikki are members of the church. The girls tell 11 News that they weren't taken away, but that they ran away because their mom is gay.
First, kidnapping is not accurate. The girls are not being held against their will. Alienation of affection, possibly, but not kidnapping.
But we do have some interesting issues here. Forcing the girls to live with their mother would interfer with the free practice of their religion, abridging their first amendment rights. On the other hand, unless we want to declare that homosexuality is grounds to consider a parent unfit, the state cannot intervene and take the children away.
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Nikki adds, "I believe what the bible says about homosexuals. And I believe that had an affect on our decision. But I also believe if she was going to love us the right way she should get rid of her lifestyle and make us number one instead of the women."hints at promiscuity, which in itself is not grounds to pull the girls out, unless it could be shown that the mother's lifestyle led her to neglect her daughters.
Of course, the state doesn't have to pull the kids out of the home; they've done that on their own already. Can the daughters sue for emancipation, based on these grounds?
Any lawyers out there?
Posted by Rich at June 27, 2002 12:13 AM