Category: New Mexico
Parents say 11-year-old daughter denied medical treatment because she has ‘two moms’
The parents of an 11-year-old student in Rancho Rio, NM, are planning a civil rights lawsuit against their daughter’s school for failing to provide her treatment following a playground accident because, they say, she has “two moms.”
Jenna
On February 26, Jenna Bissell says she sat in her fifth-grade class at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School for hours with a gash on her face, dried blood between her loosened permanent teeth, cut lips and a swollen nose after she tripped on the playground.
According to Jenna, her teacher never asked about her injuries or sent her to the nurse, and instead was just told to “go clean yourself off you are gross” by her teacher. Continue reading…
Previously from LGBTQ Nation:
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Grad student alleges school trying to force her to change her anti-gay beliefs
Saving LGBTQ youth should be our top priority
LGBT binational families seek UAFA inclusiveness
Obama administration to expand family, medical leave benefits to same-sex parents
NY Court of Appeals expands rights for same-sex parents
NM bill proposes constitutional ban on gay marriage
When the New Mexico legislature reconvenes in January, one of the bills that will be under consideration is a proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, reports the New Mexico Independent.
A previous bill that would have allowed domestic partnerships was defeated earlier this year following a lengthy debate earlier.
Gov. Bill Richardson has said that during the next session he will try again to get such a bill passed.
The bill proposing a constitutional amendment was filed by Sen. William Sharer, R-Farmington, seeks to define marriage as between one man and one woman.
This is not the first time legislation aimed at banning gay marriage has been brought up in New Mexico’s legislature.
Previous bills by Sharer in 2009, and Rep. Nora Espinoza, R-Roswell in 2008 both died in committee.
