this is just another reason they are not on the same ground as a hetro couple married. The only reason gays want to be "married" is they think with it come the acceptance and I have news for them, it doesnt.... maybe in their odd minds but not in the general population, If what these people want is a okay to have different sex the word marriage doesnt cover this,,,,, they cant produce ,,,,, period. Gay martina has been a jerk ever since her playing days, spoiled, i want it my way attitude and I dont think was really liked. Her love life is much the same way, I dont care who she messes up,, what comes around will someday go around and gay martina will be upped. With all thats going on is it really worth the time to promote this kind of ridiculous media? I think not,,, lets talk about the illegals or the poor or something other than the spoiled rich! We dont want to be like them and really dont care about their tantrums......

Too funny, hope you get a response!

"There are a lot of skeletons in Martina's closet. It is more like a storage facility full of them, and I know them all," said Toni Layton, who left her computer salesman hubby, Jeffrey Lambert, for the nine-time Wimbledon champ

Separate Maintenance is maintenance to get the unearning or underearning spouse back on their feet, not to "maintain a lifestyle...." or some such nonsense. Even in a heterosexual marriage, eight years is not long enough to warrant permanent maintenance, and it's certainly not "restitution" for a break up.

Martina has been sued and she should use all remedy available under the law to defend herself and her fortune. Calling on the gay community to condemn her is a bit premature. Especially when it reads more like blackmail to me. Exactly whom is setting a bad example to the world of what a gay divorce looks like? Toni Layton should show some class.

Better check out the fine print in her vision plan before signing on!

Martina has to woman-up and be real. She can't have "marriage ceremonies" and then insist that they "don't exist in law".

As a professinal tennis player she has few peers.

It's a shame she seemingly hasn't devoted the same integrity to her supposed life partners as she has to her backhand lob.

Go figure. A world famous athlete being selfish and narcissistic?

Isn't that the very thing which makes good athletes become great?

Ethical behavior is contrary to success in athletics. The aim of an athlete is to destroy the opposition.

Martina should play a let on this one.

Not to worry about the glasses. I'm sure Martina would pay for Lazik surgery. Need some work done on my shoulders, too.

She could be my dream woman. Rich, travels most the time, lives in a ski area, etc. Thought I had that with a six foot blonde in Park City, many years ago.

She ran from commitment, and I sure as hell didn't get paid. Did get to mooch a nice place for the winter, though it was hardly a mansion. Had to pay for my expenses and lift tickets, too. Strangely enough, even though she's the bad guy, she still welched on the small debts she owed me: she seemed to think she was entitled to get paid on the way out.

I never cease to be amazed......

Did Mick Jagger's ceremony with longtime girlfriend Jerry Hall in Nepal officiated by a Tibetan Lama hold up in court as a legally binding contract?

When gay divorce is finally legalized,all queers "iconic"or not, will be as,nasty,spiteful,and out to protect their own interests as we now see in the lives of our most righteous heterosexuals in the sacred act of divorce. Frankly, I'm glad my Sapphic Slav Sister has a zero tolerance policy for lesbian bed death. Fer Chrissakes,journalists everywhere seem to be in a race to find the dullest,blandest,queer couples in America.We can't seem to get enough of them with their mini-suvs lugging around their turkey baster progeny. So dull. I guess this must be the strategy to win over the hearts & minds of a nation that divorces half as often as it marries.It should be duly noted Evangelicals have one of the highest divorce rates.(Divorced-Again Christians?)As for me- Paulo Murillo said it best "I'll never be fat,old,or ugly enough to want to get married". But hey,Louis you keep up with the moralizing. 'Cause as a Godless Unrepentant Sodomite, I need you to like me,and validate me,oh please, oh please.

If those homes had been put in the names of both women at the time of purchase it would strengthen Layton's claim.

When I bought my home earlier this year, I had to fill out paperwork which stated I was single and not in a domestic partnership. I can remember the excitement the morning I got the phone call from the title company saying the property had been recorded in my name.

Why didn't Martina have the property title put in both names when she had the opportunity to do so? Now it's just one woman's word against another's.

I feel sympathy for her partner she filed in a state that is frankly homophobic in law and plain every day acts.

The woman has the deck stacked against her. I am not clear on divorce cases but I am not sure they can argue for a change of venue.

I agree with author and suggest that any money (property) etc accumulated after the "marriage" ceremony should be considered common property and split 50-50.

The author is correct what is good for the goose is good for the female (goose) whatever name that is.

Thank you for the clarification.

sonofloud, I would note that while I am not really pleased myself with Obama's progress on gay rights so far, far from calling gay marriage similar to incest or pedophilia, today he had 300 gay leaders over at the White House to tell them he stands with them. While words are not the same thing as action, if you really count those words as harbingers of no progress whatsoever in comparison to the last few administrations...I don't even know what to say. His words *are* a benchmark to which we can attempt to hold him accountable.

I mean, 300 gay leaders over at the White House, with the President pledging his support and begging their patience? That's surreal, in light of our recent history.

Obama is also still bound by the law, and currently, DOMA is still the law. I think I recall that this was one of our major complaints with the last President was his presumption that he was *not* bound by the law. I hope he gets it repealed, he says he will, and while he can do more than one thing at once, he cannot, in fact, do EVERYTHING at once.