Judge says lesbian mom’s partner must go

[boston bean]

MCKINNEY — Page Price and Carolyn Compton have been together for almost three years, but a Collin County judge is forcing them apart.

Judge John Roach Jr., a Republican who presides over the 296th District Court, enforced the “morality clause” in Compton’s divorce papers on Tuesday, May 7. Under the clause, someone who has a “dating or intimate relationship” with the person or is not related “by blood or marriage” is not allowed after 9 p.m. when the children are present. Price was given 30 days to move out of the home because the children live with the couple.

Price posted about the judge’s ruling on Facebook last week, writing that the judge placed the clause in the divorce papers because he didn’t like Compton’s “lifestyle.”

“Our children are all happy and well adjusted. By his enforcement, being that we cannot marry in this state, I have been ordered to move out of my home,” Price wrote.

Price also mentions that Compton’s ex-husband rarely sees their two children and was once charged with stalking Compton. She said he also hired a private investigator in order to bring the case before the judge. Court records show the ex-husband, Joshua Compton, was charged with third-degree felony stalking in 2011 but pleaded to a misdemeanor charge of criminal trespassing.

http://m.dallasvoice.com/judge-lesbian-moms-partner-10147997.html?mobile-redirector-transfer=true

[CurtEastPoint]

1. I'm glad I googled him on an empty stomach.

Cookie-cutter, self-described conservative, Marine, family man, blah blah blah.

I found this youtube interview w/him and he sounds just like that pompous Lindsey Graham.

[zerosumgame0005]

2. just curious

but would your reaction be the same if she were living with a man? would it have even made the papers?

[boston bean]

3. WTF?

[zerosumgame0005]

6. did the question confuse you?

If she were not a lesbian would you care about it? would it even be reported as something absurd? the question is more to get YOU thinking about your own reactions and why some stuff triggers your attention while others don't. This kind of thing is enforced with hetro couples quite often, so why is it a problem now for you?

[rusty fender]

19. How presumptuous of you

First, are you a self-appointed enforcer of thought processes in DUers? You presume to question the reactions of a DUer whom you have never met? Why should you even care what triggers a poster's reactions and his/her own concerns?

Your post is so wrong in so many ways and is so demeaning that I am flabbergasted that you would succumb to the sleaziness of it to write it.

[etherealtruth]

20. The issue is : Heterosexual couples have the option to marry

Gay and lesbian couples do not have that option.

Hetero couples in this position do not make the news as they can remedy this quickly and easily by marrying... this couple has NO OPTION!

[alphafemale]

5. Enjoy your stay. nt

[zerosumgame0005]

7. do questions threaten you so much?

why are you so defensive?

[alphafemale]

10. Have a nice day.

Aren't you precious?

[zerosumgame0005]

12. it makes me sad to see

such close-mindedness, I feel sorry for you...

[Stinky The Clown]

16. Hi Zero! Welcome to DU

[zerosumgame0005]

17. Howdy

[Enrique]

13. if it were a man, she would have the choice of being married to him

thus the difference from this case, which is in Texas, which does not allow gay marriage (yet).

[zerosumgame0005]

14. finally a reasonable reply!

THANK YOU! Ok, in this case a stupidity of the law prevents a legal resolution. I can see that, but there are lots of reasons someone might sleep with someone and not want to marry him (losing alimony is one, he's a jerk but good in bed for 2 examples) so the same situation could come up in hetero couples. Is there any evidence this judge has done the same to them? If not that judge needs to be removed and disbarred

[warrior1]

4. I'll predict

hell to pay for this homophobic judge.

[zerosumgame0005]

8. has this judge

ever enforced this kind of rule for hetro couples?

[Shankapotomus]

11. One wonders if a couple could get around this by claiming

to be asexual? I would gather the assumption in this law is that couples would be having sex. Seems presumptuous.

[zerosumgame0005]

15. the law is filled with those kinds of presumptions

drug laws are filled to overflowing with them. one of the most infuriating things I can think of.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

18. How are these so-called "morality clauses" enforceable?

What morality? Whose morality? Is the Judge enforcing these clauses on hetero couples too (something tells me no)? Grrrr......