Which can actually come at the expense of or be detrimental to the children in the care of gay adults.

The cruelest, most outrageous child custody case I ever heard of, was in FL (which figures).
A man, convicted of killing his first wife and who served only seven years in prison for that murder fought for custody of a child he’d fathered with a woman he’d had a brief relationship with.

This woman was living with her female life partner, and both women had raised the child (a daughter) together this child’s entire life. The little girl had never met her father,let alone ever had any sort of relationship with him.

In their relentless pursuit of showing gay people who rules, custody was awarded to the father.

Can you imagine?
That the state saw it more fitting that a man with a history of violence against females, a murderer who was a stranger to his daughter, had more sway with the court and judge, than her devoted mothers.
Imagine the pain and fear these women had for their child.
Imagine the motives for a man to WANT to do this in the first place?

There is no end to how deep the spite against gay people goes. Even to place a child in a situation like that.

More specifically, it can be argued that such situations in which gay parents are in danger of losing their children is similar to what black slaves endured when they couldn’t keep their own children.
First because of their status as not being able to marry, un protected by the Constitution, nor assumed as equal in the eyes of the state.

There is a great deal that gays DO have in common with the civil rights (or lack of them) history of laws in this country.
Hiding behind children is a powerful rationale to maintain bigoted discrimination, but clearly no child actually benefits from it.

Congratulations and I hope that this is the end of it and you and your family can finally get back to living life.

The courts can literally put lgbt individuals at a severe disadvantage since the children are wards of the courts from divorce date to age 12, when they can make their own decisions about who to live with (but still has to be approved by the judge) and to age 18 when they transition out of the court’s care and jurisdiction.

I thank God every day that I stood with and for my children. I thank my now ex-partner for the love and care he gave my boys during those first years of insecurity and fear. And, 12 years later, I thank my current partner for his love and compassion accepting not only my children, but now grandchildren as well. Most of all, I thank my children, for loving their Dad, no matter what was said or done in those early days. Truly, I am a blessed father.