Posted on 05/03/2013 10:23:16 AM PDT by newgeezer
The Iowa Supreme Court Friday affirmed a district court ruling that both spouses in a lesbian marriage should be listed on a child’s birth certificate.
The court ordered the Iowa Department of Public Health to reissue a birth certificate to Melissa and Heather Gartner, of Des Moines, for their daughter, Mackenzie Jean, who was born in September 2009. The department refused to list Melissa, the nonbirthing parent, on the birth certificate.
“It is important our laws recognize that married lesbian couples who have children enjoy the same benefits and burdens as married opposite-sex couples who have children,” the court wrote in a 29-page decision issued Friday.
“By naming the nonbirthing spouse on the birth certificate of a married lesbian couple’s child, the child is ensured supported from that parent and that parents establishes fundamental rights at the moment of birth,” the ruling states.
The Supreme Court’s 2009 Varnum vs. Brien decision legalizing same-sex marriage provides the bedrock for Friday’s decision, the court noted.
let’s get this straight, two woman cannot produce a child, so a child, any child, when born is not the result of human reproduction of two women and yet a “birth certificate” - a certificate recording the result of an act of human reproduction, which cannot be an act achieved by two women, is suppose to lie about what “a birth” means and state, in error of the facts, that the child’s biological mother and her girlfriend are both “mother” of the child
it makes no sense whatsoever and the fact that it makes no sense stands regardless of anyone’s opinion about anyone being “gay”
Birth certificates are not supposed to be ownership registrations.
of all the problems we face in this country and there are still some who seem intent on their sexual turn on and making it look like they’re a family.
These people need to stop this nonsense, it makes them look insane and mentally backwards.
The fact is that it takes a male and a female to make a baby
plain and simple
these people need to get a life
You are right. So it isn’t a birth certificate.
I knew a kid raised as a basket case by lesbians. I’m sure he’s committed suicide by this time.
“married lesbian couples who have children enjoy the same benefits and burdens as married opposite-sex couples who have children,”
Sorry, but I’m going to have to say it:
Except for the di*k benefits.
So “parent” doesn’t mean PARENT anymore. Is that what they’re saying?
The bastard’s mother is the parent, the other is a nurturer
It's at least plausible that another man could be the father. But there is absolutely no way that this combination is possible.
Just another example of the re-definition of marriage also redefining parenthood and a multitude of other realities.
And, whoever controls the debate gets to define the terms.
For example, who the **** knows (or cares) what "infringed" means anymore?
The very first time the SCOTUS handed down an anti-Constitutional ruling and it was allowed to stand, the writing was on the wall. The actual words in the Constitution mean NOTHING. Dubya's Chief Justice John Roberts made that quite clear with his Obamacare insanity. That may have been the final tipping point. Our precarious 5-4 majority is dissolving before our eyes and will soon be gone. "God Bless America" indeed. He did, even while America kept telling Him to get lost.</rant>
Lesbian "couples" do not have children; one of the women does with the help of a man. The other woman is just a spectator.
I remember reading an article maybe 6 months again about a married lesbian couple who had a man donate sperm or maybe they conceived naturally and his name was on the BC. Predictably the lesbians got a divorce. The lesbian mother sued the biological father and won for child support.
Yeah, there’s that!
Likewise in Massachusetts.
Yep.
Also, who made the turkey baster?
/s
Idiots, all idiots!
so now we have judges who make laws and then after making laws they then make other laws based on their older made up law.
I thought these judges had been replaced by the voters last year or are they the same judges which imposed queer sham on the state?
we have judges just making up laws now and where is the GOP and wy are these judges not been voted out yet?
they can pretend they’re married and even when I hear anyone saying a homosexual is married I point out tat they’re not
Like being a parent, it takes a man and a woman, plain and simple, they can pretend to play family but they are not a real family and I don’t give a crap to anyone who I say this too either to their face
We got rid of several, but several are left.
And we have such a stupid process for picking judges that the hope of getting any judge who is committed to his oath is practically nil.
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