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...Mary Jo Risher...
...friends began to steer clear of me after they found out what mom was," Jimmy Risher, 17, told a Dallas jury...
What Jimmy meant was that his mother, Mary Jo Risher, 38, is an avowed lesbian who was divorced in 1971 and now lives with another woman. Embarrassed by his mother's new housekeeping arrangement, Jimmy decided in 1974 to move in with his father, Douglas...
...Risher Jr., who had remarried. The father then went to court to gain custody of Jimmy's nine-year-old brother Richard. Risher's lawyer implored the jury not to make the youngster "a guinea pig in someone else's social experiment...
...Risher, a nurse, countered that her relationship did not interfere with raising her son. But the jury of ten men and two women, apparently moved by Jimmy's emotional plea to "get my brother out of this particular home," granted custody to the father. The verdict is a legal setback for gay-rights activists, who contend that homosexuality should not be considered an obstacle to being a good parent...