Imagine the State now giving FULL legal rights to your child to a 3rd person. Maybe your former spouse has remarried and the step parent wants full legal rights...this is what happens when marriage and the family unit is no longer defined by biology, but defined by the State. This week Jennifer Johnson delves into the crazy world of California birth certificates. Note that what starts here is likely to trickle into other areas of the country. It began with allowing three parents on a birth certificate. Now we have a gender-neutral option for parentage in the works, continuing the fallacy that genders are meaningless and completely interchangeable. Read all about it below. P.S. Dr. Morse hopes to meet many of her newsletter subscribers this Thursday and Friday at the Stand for the Family conference in Provo, Utah! Please come join her! AB 1951, the “G-y Birth Certificate” bill by Jennifer Johnson, Ruth Institute Director of Finance and Outreach. I have always argued that there is a very serious civil outcome to redefining marriage, and it has nothing to do with religious liberty or the idea of “sacramental marriage.” Since marriage is society’s primary way of acknowledging and understanding parenthood, redefining marriage redefines parenthood. Here in California, the affects of “SSM” and redefining parenthood are rapidly making their way through the legislature. Last year, Gov. Brown signed a bill allowing three or more legal parents for children, which was inspired by a “SSM” custody dispute. Now we have this: AB 1951. This bill will change birth certificates to allow for a gender neutral option for parents. Gay couples will be able to list both of themselves on the child’s birth certificate. California recently did away with the terms “husband” and “wife,” because of “SSM,” the lead legislator for that measure saying those terms were outdated and biased. I suppose we can infer the same thing for “mother” and “father.” Contrary to assertions in certain quarters, these recent measures in California do not strengthen the idea of “family.” On the contrary, measures such as these weaken the idea of “family,” since the legal default for defining family is now based on an unreality. After all, biology says, “One father and one mother for a child.” Like a stake in the ground, reality limits the state, but the state must accept this reality. When the state embraces an unreality, as it has in “SSM,” it has given itself a blank check to do a lot of other things. ruthinstitute.libsyn/california-s-gay-birth-certificate-bill?tbingham@ruthinstitute.org,%20toddbingham@me
Posted on: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 11:44:08 +0000
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