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More to The Wyoming Lawsuit Story – Outing the Wyoming Plaintiff

Posted by: Lez Get Real on August 27, 2010.

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Melanie Nathan; August 27, 2010

On August 13 a Gay couple filed a Federal lawsuit in Wyoming alleging they had been refused a marriage license three times.

However this week upon investigation LezGetReal delved further into the background of the Plaintiffs and noted that Gerald David Shupe-Roderick has been in trouble with the law; conducted prior jailhouse lawyer self representing lawsuits and was arrested by police in May of this year on allegations of document fraud.

When asked, the County Clerk Debbye Balcaen Lathrop said she never met with Shupe-Roderick or Dupree on the issue and could find no one in her office who knows anything about denying a marriage license to the men. ”We’re totally in the dark about this,” Balcaen Lathrop said, adding she didn’t know how her office would respond if it received such an application. It hasn’t happened in the nearly 16 years she’s been in office, she said.

In the meantime in an interview with FresnoBee Shupe-Roderick stated “I’ve tried to kind of not rock the boat, so to speak, but there comes a time in everyone’s life when there are things that are wrong and you have a moral duty to stand up and you have to advocate for what’s right,” Shupe-Roderick said Tuesday. “I think Ryan and I agree that this is something that is wrong, and it’s something that needs to be changed.” (To FresnoBee)

Implicit in this statement is that this Plaintiff is a first time Plaintiff – as if he has never stood up for his rights before. The facts denote the contrary.

By Melanie Nathan.
nathan@privatecourts.com