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Re: Let's Ban Heterosexual Marriage
| quote: | Originally posted by Renegade
http://www.zmag.org/content/print_a...22§ionID=12
I don't think the "sanctity of marriage" argument is valid anymore - if we're going to ban homosexual marriages to preserve the institution, we'd better start banning heterosexual marriages as well based on this evidence. I recommend starting with celebrity marriages then working our way up from there.
Thoughts? |
| quote: | Originally posted by http://www.zmag.org/content/print_a...22§ionID=12
...There is the additional problem of abandonment. Millions of spouses---including many white middle-class professionals---desert their families and fail to provide sustenance for their own children. Often they do not even acknowledge or stay in contact with their offspring. If heterosexual matrimony is so sacred, you would think it might produce less horrific results... |
Which brings this lesbian "momster" story as quoted in the NY Daily News:
| quote: | Originally posted by New York Daily News.com (click here)
Tragic trip for dad
of dead child
Suspected abuse of little boy
at the hands of lesbian lovers
By RALPH R. ORTEGA
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2004
The corpse's tiny face was covered in bruises.
But beneath the marks that betrayed a young life ending in unfathomable agony, Yovany Tellez made out the once-cheerful face of the little son ripped from him eight months ago.
"That's him," the devastated dad softly told the Daily News as he looked at the gut-wrenching photo of his beloved toddler's lifeless body at the medical examiner's office in Manhattan yesterday.
Tellez had suspected that his son, who would have turned 2 Oct. 5, was being abused.
But the heartbroken Michigan man said he was too late in coming to protect the child, also named Yovany, who was savagely beaten to death inside a filthy Harlem flat early Sunday.
Now the boy's mother and her lesbian lover are charged with the child's murder as his father begins the sad journey of bringing his "Gordo" - Spanish for chubby - back home to lay him to rest.
"I always knew in my heart that people - maybe the whole world - would come to know my son," Tellez said sadly. "But not this way."
Tellez had not seen his tiny namesake since a bitter split with the boy's mother, Zahira Matos.
Pregnant with another of Tellez's children, the 21-year-old mom left their home in Kentwood, Mich., with his son and her new love, Carmen Molina.
Tellez said he lost touch with Matos when she moved, but that a friend had recently helped him track her down.
He learned the women were living in a Harlem housing project, and that Kimberly, the daughter Matos was carrying when he last saw her, had been born two months ago.
Then, a relative of Molina's warned him that she may have been abusing his son. Molina, 32, denied it when he confronted her over the phone, but a skeptical and concerned Tellez made plans to come and see his boy this Friday.
But six days before Tellez was scheduled to arrive, police found the little boy dead in the filthy flat. His injuries included a torn liver, fractured leg, fractured ribs, bruised face and a bleeding rectum.
"I regret not being here in time to save my son," said Tellez, who hopes to win custody of Kimberly, now in a foster home.
The tragic turn of events came four years after Tellez met Matos, who was already four months pregnant with another man's child.
The couple dated through the birth of Matos' daughter, Yahmliz, now 3. Five months after Yovany was born, Tellez proposed to Matos.
"Our plan was to get married and live happily ever after, raising our kids," he said sadly.
Tellez, who works marketing vitamins, returned to his hometown of Miami in July last year, hoping to land a new job and find a home for the young family.
But the South Florida lifestyle wasn't for him, Tellez said.
When he returned to Kentwood, Mich., three months later, his relationship with Matos quickly began to sour.
Although Matos became pregnant with Kimberly, it was not enough to stop the couple from splitting.
"I thought we'd get back together in a month or so, but she met Carmen," Tellez said.
A friend introduced Matos to Molina, a former restaurant worker from New York staying with relatives in Michigan.
Tellez said he accepted that his wife had moved on. Although he and Molina never met face to face, he said that when he called to speak with Matos, Molina would often try to provoke him.
"I'm your girl's man now, and there's nothing you can do about it," he recalled her saying.
Tellez believes Molina turned his onetime fiancée against him, convincing her to leave her town, 45 miles north of Kalamazoo.
In January, just before the women left for New York, Tellez saw his son for the last time.
"I gave him a kiss and looked in his eyes and said, 'Gordo, I love you,'" the father said. "He kissed me back and smiled."
Molina and Matos both admitted to police that they beat Yovany, but authorities believe it was Molina who struck the fatal blows.
Tellez says the women deserve to die. But his mother, Maria Barroso, who rushed with him to New York after learning of her grandson's fate, disagrees.
"I don't want the death penalty for them. I want them both in jail for years," Barroso said through tears. "I want them to live with the pain for what they did."
With Fernanda Santos and Barbara Ross |
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Last edited by ogvh5150 on Oct-01-2004 at 21:41
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