Equal parenting legislation is the civil rights issue of our age.
This issue is why I am politically active. It is why I support campaigns with my time and with hard cash. It is a battle against institutional bigotry (usually but not always against men) and the victims are always children.
I don't have kids, but after experiencing first hand how an opportunist judge with no regard for the law operates in my own county, I began peeling the onion on this issue a lot more and found out how much damage is being done to families through our courts. On one side you have an institution (our county and state governments) which profits from splitting up families and placing children with the parent least able to support themselves not to mention a child (hence the state gets to put a funnel in the bank account of the more financially able parent) and on the other side you have judges and family law attorneys engaged in an incestuous money sucking enterprise designed to bleed families of all assets and on into bankruptcy.
A small army of parents trekked to Olympia to fight for shared parenting this past session, we found some great support on both sides of the aisle, and some well funded opposition.
It's unfortunate that a few professed feminists are holding the entire legislature hostage on this issue. The institutionalized bigotry these few (but not all) women Senators stand for is a disgrace and is destroying the institution of family far more than gay marriage ever will.
There are no two ways about it; the senators opposing this legislation are bigots. They hide behind illogical emotional arguments and are supported by truckloads of institutional privilege funded by the destruction of family.
So far as partisan battles go, despite the opposition mainly being from the democrat side of the aisle, this is not an R vs D issue. The biggest champion of this legislation also happens to be a democrat.
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