The U. S. State Department has decided to make U.S. passport application forms "gender neutral" which is a simple acknowledgement that not all families have a male parent and a female parent in their make up. It's a simple reflection of reality, but it's caused the spittle to fly among the hate group set such as Family Research Council which released a press release fulminating against the State Department's decision. Apparently, any acknowledgement that same sex couples head families in the real world is just too much for the likes of the Klan loving Tony Perkins. To these haters, the existence of gay headed families is supposed to be something that remains invisible to their fantasy based world. First, here are highlights from the Washington Post on the State Department action: *
Goodbye, Mom and Dad. Hello, Parent One and Parent Two. . . . The change is "in recognition of different types of families," according to a statement issued just before Christmas that drew widespread attention Friday after a Fox News report.
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The new policy is a win for gay rights groups, a vocal and financially generous Democratic voting bloc that has pushed for the change since Barack Obama began his presidential transition in late 2008. The decision follows last month's vote to end the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, which gay leaders consider one of *
their biggest victories in years.
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Fred Sainz, vice president of the Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights advocacy group, called the news "a positive step forward for all American families. It was time that the federal government acknowledged the reality that hundreds of thousands of kids in this country are being raised by same-sex parents."
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As noted, Tony Perkins - for whom the media continues to shamelessly provide a platform - is not happen and the hate group which he heads issued a press release. Here's a sampling of Perkins' whining and ranting:
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"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. Yet that is the result of the State Department's decision to remove the words 'mother' and 'father' from Consular Reports of Birth Abroad.
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"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 (DOMA). But it does so at the expense of fundamental biological reality - and social reality as well.
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"President Obama's Justice Department is purposefully failing to defend the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in the courts, so it is little surprise that his State Department would show the same disrespect for U.S. law. The House of Representatives should take their oversight rule very seriously and intervene in both these circumstances."
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Perkins can rant all he wants but the reality is that same sex couple headed families are only going to increase in numbers as time goes by. If FRC were a real charitable organization rather than a hate group, all the money expended on anti-gay activities would be used to provide for the poor, hungry and homeless.
Goodbye, Mom and Dad. Hello, Parent One and Parent Two. . . . The change is "in recognition of different types of families," according to a statement issued just before Christmas that drew widespread attention Friday after a Fox News report.
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The new policy is a win for gay rights groups, a vocal and financially generous Democratic voting bloc that has pushed for the change since Barack Obama began his presidential transition in late 2008. The decision follows last month's vote to end the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, which gay leaders consider one of *
their biggest victories in years.
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Fred Sainz, vice president of the Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights advocacy group, called the news "a positive step forward for all American families. It was time that the federal government acknowledged the reality that hundreds of thousands of kids in this country are being raised by same-sex parents."
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As noted, Tony Perkins - for whom the media continues to shamelessly provide a platform - is not happen and the hate group which he heads issued a press release. Here's a sampling of Perkins' whining and ranting:
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"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. Yet that is the result of the State Department's decision to remove the words 'mother' and 'father' from Consular Reports of Birth Abroad.
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"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 (DOMA). But it does so at the expense of fundamental biological reality - and social reality as well.
*
"President Obama's Justice Department is purposefully failing to defend the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in the courts, so it is little surprise that his State Department would show the same disrespect for U.S. law. The House of Representatives should take their oversight rule very seriously and intervene in both these circumstances."
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Perkins can rant all he wants but the reality is that same sex couple headed families are only going to increase in numbers as time goes by. If FRC were a real charitable organization rather than a hate group, all the money expended on anti-gay activities would be used to provide for the poor, hungry and homeless.
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