Dear Editor:

RE: Court Rules Both Mothers Have Parental Rights

Regarding your story on the Daytona Beach court ruling about parental rights for gay parents (Agenda, Jan. 5, 2012: “Court Rules Both Mothers Have Parental Rights”), it saddens me that having gone through the all the rigmarole of meeting, partnering, conceiving, and raising a child together, at least for a time, these two women engaged in the age-old rite of throwing the bathwater out and hoping the baby sticks to the side of the tub.

The challenges that face LGBT parents are great, and parents of all sexual identities deserve the sympathy and good will of everyone, especially when things sour and partners go their separate ways. I am sickened, though, that these women seem to have thrown good sense and judgment, not to mention compassion and concern for the child, to the wind in what – an ego-driven custody battle worthy of any moron—gay, straight, or what-have-you—ever to disgrace the stage of Jerry Springer’s program. These women were pioneers, and more importantly, parents. They owe it to the child firstly and the greater LGBT community at-large secondly to be good examples, even when it comes to ending their loving relationship. Grow up, ladies.

- Lee, Dania Beach