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The court ruled in a case involving two lesbians, one of whom is State Senator Julia Boseman (D-New Hanover). Boseman's partner Melissa Jarrell had a baby through artificial insemination and permitted Boseman to adopt the child. Child custody became a factor when the couple split up and the natural mother wanted Boseman, her former partner, out of the picture. The North Carolina Court of Appeals granted custody to Boseman. 
 
"Basically this case just represents the craziness in our laws when we go against God's moral law and open up our courts and our institutions to this kind of ridiculous behavior," notes Barbara Weller of the Christian Law Association.
 
Homosexual "marriage" is not legal in North Carolina, and Weller feels that the problem rests in the state's adoption policy as she reports that "North Carolina has a wide range of adoptions that are contemplated and permitted, so they don't care if it's two men or two women or a single parent or people who are living together." Weller concludes the carelessness on the court's behalf is not good for the children or for society as a whole.

Jarrell, the biological mother, is asking the state Supreme Court to rule on the basis of the best interests of the child.