I can’t imagine SCOTUS ruling that a child with only one parent on their birth certificate couldn’t run for president if the mother was a US citizen at time of birth and father was unknown. Not in 2012.
I ask that people on this thread who are pro-life and hope that an unmarried woman who becomes pregnant but decides to keep the baby instead of having an abortion, stop calling the kids ‘bastards’. Is the blame the child’s?
Fair enough, but in Barry's case declaring himself as born to a single mother (and no UK father and not being a UK subject at birth) he may save his presidency from being declared ineligible, if SCOTUS goes along with him being NBC (and born in the US).
The “law of bastardy” is no longer in effect as a “disability” for most US citizens. But it is a matter of national security for both the UK and US. Marriage still determines legal paternity for purposes of determining unitary vs dual citizenship or no citizenship of a child born outside the US to US citizen father (who may be married to someone else) and non-citizen mother.
But since the majority of children in some communities (and many European countries) are the children of unmarried parents being a “bastard” is passe as, unfortunately, is being married and being a Christian and complying with scripture on marriage and procreation.
The insult “he is a bastard” has a totally different meaning and partisans are eager to apply it to folks they disdain having nothing to do with whether their mothers were married. Witness MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan’s new book “Greedy Bastards” about the thieving Wall Street Bankers.
Heck, MSNBC caters to liberals and AA’s and 70% of AA’s children are born out of wedlock and I believe that Al Sharpton comes on right after Ratigan and doesn't seem to mind or comment on Ratigan’s book title.
But I do appreciate your concern and it did occur to me when I first heard the book title.