GAY FATHER APPEALS MD CUSTODY RULING: From the Washington Post

A gay Montgomery County father is trying to overturn a court order that forced his partner to move out of their shared house as a condition for retaining custody of his son.

The order initially was issued in an Alexandria family court in 2002, before the men moved to separate apartments in Rockville. Now attorneys for the father, Ulf Hedberg, have appealed to Maryland courts to declare the custody order unconstitutional.

"If there is no evidence of any problem with a gay or lesbian partner being present in the home, the court should not interfere in those private relationships," said Susan Sommer, supervising attorney with New York-based Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund. ...

Detthow, a sign-language interpreter who is not hearing-impaired, does not intend to let her son live in the same house with the man who broke up her 12-year marriage, said her attorney, Patrick Stiehm. ...

But Hedberg argued that his partner of nine years is an integral part of the boy's life.

"Blaise had spent time with our son with different activities, comforted him while I was not around, like another parent does," Hedberg wrote. "Our son cried every night in the beginning and asked me why Blaise moved out. I struggled to find a word to explain [to] him why this happened."

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