Sunday, January 09, 2011

'Mother,' 'Father' Changing to 'Parent One,' 'Parent Two' on U.S. Passport Applications

We read:
"The words “mother” and “father” will be removed from U.S. passport applications and replaced with gender neutral terminology, the State Department says.

“The words in the old form were ‘mother’ and ‘father,’” said Brenda Sprague, deputy assistant Secretary of State for Passport Services. "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.” The statement didn't note if it was for child applications only.

The State Department said the new passport applications, not yet available to the public, will be available online soon.

Sprague 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 applauding the decision... 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.”

Source

The disrespect for normal marriage continues. What if a mother feels offended by being called simply "parent 1"? Her feelings, don't count, of course. Minorities are all that matter.

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

WHY?

I know, but I WON'T ASK...WON'T TELL

Stucco Holmes said...

Parent 1? Parent 2? Damn, what are they thinking? It should be Parent A and Parent B.

Brian from Virginia said...

Whenever I am filling out a form like this, I cross out the Parent 1 and Parent 2 rubbish, and write in 'Father' and 'Mother'.

Dean said...

Shades of Dr. Suess: Thing One and Thing Two. Actually we named a couple kittens Thing One and Thing Two.

Anonymous said...

This kind of crap will continue until the O'Bummer administration is kicked out in 2012.

Anonymous said...

2 parents? What about self-impregnating hermaphrodites?

Anonymous said...

"Whenever I am filling out a form like this, I cross out the Parent 1 and Parent 2 rubbish, and write in 'Father' and 'Mother'."

You can try 4:24 AM,

But they'll just return the form marked REJECTED!

You can't fight city hall, and it's even getting more difficult just to piss on the steps!

Anonymous said...

Hey Bogs, you may not be able to fight city hall, but you can surely tear it down!

Anonymous 4:54 said...
"This kind of crap will continue until the O'Bummer administration is kicked out in 2012."

No, this kind of crap will continue until the weak, brain-dead American people understand, and overcome, their addiction to political correctness, a totally fake philosophy "created" by the Left as a substitute for reality and truth.

Anonymous said...

This is another example of how a relative handful of gays can change the lives of 320 Million people. This is how gays force their chosen lifestyles on the rest of society, whether that society likes it or not.

A note to lesbians: No matter how hard you try, what you call it, or how you disguise it, you NEED a man's seed to produce a child. You are nothing more than a receptacle, and your girlfriend is even less!

Lush Rimbaugh said...

Ah, but lesbians are fun to watch in porno movies.

Anonymous said...

But, surely the issue they have created is either a feminist nightmare (the mother gets put in 2nd place) or man-hating (the father gets put in 2nd place).

Spurwing Plover said...

Gets totaly weird these persons getting out of hand as well

Anonymous said...

Why just 2 parents if it is reflecting modern methods of fertilization or modern forms of family grouping -?