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January 08, 2011
Obama's State Dept.: Get Ready For Gender-Neutral Passports
Get Ready For Gender-Neutral Passports
'Mother,' 'Father' Changing to 'Parent One,' 'Parent Two' on Passport Applications
The words “mother” and “father” will be removed from U.S. passport applications and replaced with gender neutral terminology, according to the State Dept.
“The words in the old form were ‘mother’ and ‘father’,” said Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Passport Services Brenda Sprague. “They are now ‘parent one’ and ‘parent two.’”
A statement on the State Department website noted: “These improvements are being made to provide a gender neutral description of a child’s parents and in recognition of different types of families.”
Sprauge said the decision to remove the traditional parenting names was not an act of political correctness.
“We find that with changes in medical science and reproductive technology that we are confronting situations now that we would not have anticipated 10 or 15 years ago,” she said.
Gay rights groups are hailing the decision.
“Changing the term mother and father to the more global term of parent allows many different types of families to be able to go and apply for a passport for their child without feeling like the government doesn’t recognize their family,” said Jennifer Chrisler, executive director of Family Equality Council.
Her organization lobbied the government for several years to remove the words from passport applications.
Our government needs to recognize that the family structure is changing,” Chrisler said. “The best thing that we can do is support people who are raising kids in loving, stable families.”
But some conservative Christians are outraged over the decision.
“Only in the topsy-turvy world of left-wing political correctness could it be considered an ‘improvement’ for a birth-related document to provide less information about the circumstances of that birth,” Family Research Council president Tony Perkins wrote in a statement to Fox News Radio. “This is clearly designed to advance the causes of same-sex ‘marriage’ and homosexual parenting without statutory authority, and violates the spirit if not the letter of the Defense of Marriage Act.”
Robert Jeffress, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Dallas, agreed.
“It’s part of an overall attempt at political correctness to diminish the distinction between men and women and to somehow suggest you don’t need both a father and a mother to raise a child successfully,” said Jeffress. “(This decision) was made to make homosexual couples feel more comfortable in rearing children.”
Wild Thing's comment.........
Changing the term mother and father to the more global term of parent allows many different types of families to be able to go and apply for a passport for their child without feeling like the government doesn’t recognize their family,” said Jennifer Chrisler, executive director of Family Equality Council.
So I looked up the "Family Equality Council" :
Jennifer Chrisler is the Executive Director of Family Equality Council (formerly Family Pride Coalition), the national LGBT families. Formerly Chrisler was an assistant to her current partner, former MA state Senator Cheryl Jacques, and she was at the center of a controversy after receiving very large pay raises by Jacques.[1] Jennifer holds a BA degree from Smith College[1][dead link] and resides in Newton, MA with her partner, Cheryl Jacques and their twin sons, Timmy and Tommy.
Gays make up approximately 1.5% of the population. So why are they calling all the shots?
This is very much is intentional conditioning so that young children will have husband/wife paradigm erased from their worldview. It is why textbooks put in partner, rather than spouse—to erase the idea that marriage is better. It is to prepare children to have no special biological loyalty and accept ABNORMAL as normal....Marxists hate it when people aren’t loyal to the whole collective instead of dedicated to a few. They work for groupthink.
Are we going to have to change the holidays to “Parent 1 Day” and “Parent 2 Day”?
Posted by Wild Thing at January 8, 2011 05:48 AM
Comments
Maybe they should change it to "sperm donor" and "incubator".
Posted by: BobF at January 8, 2011 07:59 AM
Sure seems to be a lot of gay politicians in Massachusetts. Communists, Kennedys and gays. What a screwed up state.
Posted by: TomR,armed in Texas at January 8, 2011 10:29 AM
Are they going to legalize Gay parent adoption in Mass? What a mess they have created in merely two years.
Posted by: Mark at January 8, 2011 12:45 PM
Bob, they mighit as well. Good point.
Posted by: Wild Thing at January 8, 2011 06:39 PM
Tom your right. Weird how the left and right sides of our country are extemely liberal.
Posted by: Wild Thing at January 8, 2011 06:41 PM
Mark, I bet that's next. I feel sorry for the kids, I want them to have tons of love but also to have a strong idenity and the left messes with all of this so much it is crazy.
Posted by: Wild Thing at January 8, 2011 06:45 PM
