What’s Better on a Passport: 'Mother' and 'Father' or 'Parent 1' and 'Parent 2'?
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2011/01/11 22:00:00
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As if another battleground was needed over the subject of gay parenting, now the fight has moved into the air. Well, not exactly the air, but the airport anyway.
Thanks to the work of gay-rights supporters, the face of your passport could soon be changing in a way that may strip a bit more of your gender identity.
The State Department has announced that the words “mother” and “father” on U.S. passport applications will now be replaced with the more gender-neutral terms “parent one” and “parent two.” The agency said the change is part of an improvement intended to give a more accurate description of “a child’s parents and in recognition of different types of families.”
While gay parents cheered the news, Christian conservative organizations were quick to pounce on the news and decry the changes.
"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," said Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council in a statement.
Perkins, a longtime foe of same-sex marriage, said the gender neutral terms were "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 (DOMA)."
He was referring to the 1996 federal law that legally defines marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
The new passport applications will be available online next month.
So, which do you prefer? Mom and dad or “parent one” and “parent two?”
Thanks to the work of gay-rights supporters, the face of your passport could soon be changing in a way that may strip a bit more of your gender identity.
The State Department has announced that the words “mother” and “father” on U.S. passport applications will now be replaced with the more gender-neutral terms “parent one” and “parent two.” The agency said the change is part of an improvement intended to give a more accurate description of “a child’s parents and in recognition of different types of families.”
While gay parents cheered the news, Christian conservative organizations were quick to pounce on the news and decry the changes.
"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," said Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council in a statement.
Perkins, a longtime foe of same-sex marriage, said the gender neutral terms were "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 (DOMA)."
He was referring to the 1996 federal law that legally defines marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
The new passport applications will be available online next month.
So, which do you prefer? Mom and dad or “parent one” and “parent two?”
Top Opinion
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Diana 2011/01/12 00:58:11
Everyone knows that if a man ejaculates into another man's anus a liberal comes out nine months later.
I learned it in developmental biology
being a sperm donor/breeding sow does not make you a parent.
Ok, now everyone has a mother and father, whether we like it or not... seeing as sperm comes from the male and eggs come from the female (I can continue with this basic biology lesson if need be)... it doesn't matter if you have two mommies or two daddies... you can only come to be by a male AND a female component...
It doesn't matter if your parent is a crackhead or dead or whatever, you still spawned from them... as much as you would LOVE to deny it...
Anyway, though I see, understand and even accept the reasoning behind using gender neutral terms... the question is what do I prefer... and I prefer mother and father...
Oh and this is on the PASSPORT application... regardless of whether you want to acknowledge a parent or they have died or not... you still have to list them if you know who they are... :-/ I would have rather listed my step-father rather than my father... however, that would defeat the reasoning that they need to check to see if my citizenship is actually valid... thus, I needed to list whomever was on my birth certificate.
Like I said in my original comment, when I applied for my passport I had to list my biological father... even though he hasn't been a parent to me since I was 3.... I had a step-father that was my parent and had been for years... but I HAD to list my father because he still had legal rights to me as a parent and he was listed on my birth certificate.
This isn't a case of what we all would prefer to do... it's a case of what we must do in order to prove we are who we say we are...
Parent One and Parent Two fits this best.
And I mean...well everyone has a mom and dad.
I've seen this question before on SH, and some people have said both their parents are dead. Then what?
It really only works one way.
I learned the Latin prefix homo means "Same" not man.
As in Homogenius: Having a uniform composition or nature.
Homozygous: Having identical genetic alleles for the same trait.
You might want to mind your own tongue before you display your ignorance in public forum just as you were saying.