Madonna Adoption Ruling Forces Her To Wait For Something For First Time Since Early '80s
The coalition of human rights groups insisting on a full review of the circumstances surrounding Madonna's relatively swift adoption of an African demi-orphan have won a crucial legal victory, allowing them to join the court in ensuring David Banda wasn't traded for an autographed copy of "Confessions on a Dancefloor" with a starstruck orphanage guard with a Chichewa nickname that translates roughly as "the Gay One":
High Court Justice Andrew Nyirenda ruled Wednesday that the Human Rights Consultative Committee and the state-run Malawi Human Rights Commission could join the adoption process as friends of the court and pursue their application for a full judicial review of the interim custody order he granted to Madonna and her British filmmaker husband Guy Ritchie.
Madonna's lawyer, Alan Chinula, told reporters the couple have agreed to the ruling.
"The Ritchies called me from London and I explained to them the ruling ... they have no problem with the ruling and are also willing to sit back and wait," Chinula said in the capital, Lilongwe.
Madonna's patient and cooperative attitude with the Malawian officials' ruling speaks volumes about her devotion to the little one, as the last time she was made to wait for anything—a bottle of Yoga-flavored water, to be precise, in the fall of 2004—the delinquent assistant to whom such duties were assigned was swiftly transferred to the overnight stable shift, where nine nightly hours of thoroughbred waste removal were a constant, pungent reminder of exactly why one must never get between the Mistress and the one thing she desires at any given moment.
