Birth certificate refused for child with 2 dads

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Tuesday, April 6, 2004

[JohnHuang2]

LAW OF THE LAND
Birth certificate refused for child with 2 dads
Homosexual rights groups threatens suit citing legal precedent

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Posted: April 6, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com

Oklahoma's health department refused to issue a birth certificate to a child with "two fathers."

Two-year-old Vivian has been under the care of Gregory Hampel and Edmund Swaya, in Seattle, Wash., since shortly after she was born in Oklahoma, reports the website Gay365.com

The homosexual-rights group Lambda Legal is arguing Oklahoma law allows for co-adoption.

"The Health Department does not have authority to decide who gets a birth certificate or who is a legal parent," said Brian Chase, staff attorney for Lambda Legal.

Chase said it's "both unlawful and unconscionable to withhold this vital document because of anti-gay prejudice against a child's parents."

Oklahoma State Attorney General W.A. Drew Edmonson recently issued an advisory stating that under the federal Constitution and Oklahoma laws, the state must issue birth certificates for children legally adopted outside of Oklahoma, including to children adopted by same-sex couples, the website said.

Lambda Legal won a similar case for a lesbian couple in Vermont who adopted a baby from Mississippi.

A state judge ordered the state Board of Health to issue a certificate listing both mothers.

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[JohnHuang2]

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[thoughtomator]

Lovely! They sue for non-complicity in document fraud. Let's pretend that children aren't produced by a man and a woman people... who are you going to believe, Lambda lawyers, or your own lying biology textbook?

[Spruce]

Would not this child already have a birth certificate naming the mother and father?

[WOSG]

de facto gay marriage coming to a safe conservative state near you. uggg.

ummm, where is the real natural mother here?

I hope the kid manages to grow up somewhat normally.

[JennysCool]

Would not this child already have a birth certificate naming the mother and father?

Melissa Etheridge and David Crosby?

[JohnHuang2]

Bump

[Spruce]

Isn't placing false data, ie: the incorrect birth mother and birth father, on a Certificate of Live Birth a crime already?

[jocon307]

"Would not this child already have a birth certificate naming the mother and father?"

That's what I was thinking. But what about cases where people find an abandoned child, I guess the state has to issue that person some kind of birth certificate.

My dad worked for child welfare in NYC once, and named an abandoned baby once. He named him Matthew Fulton, it was in the papers an everything. Too bad my dad has gone to his reward, so I can't ask him abouth the birth certificate thing. Maybe people who are adopted do get new birth certs. That would explain why sometimes people don't know they were adopted.

[freekitty]

"Would not this child already have a birth certificate naming the mother and father?"

I was wondering the same thing.

[mongrel]

In some cases where newborns are adopted, the adoptive parents' names are placed on the birth certificate. This started because in closed adoptions, the anonymity of the birth parents is protected.

[jimbo68]

One thing that most news media failed to mention about this particular adoption is that it was "open" - the birth mother selected the two Dads specifically to raise her child. The state of Oklahoma should stay out of it and honor the wishes of the mother. Regardless of any legislation that hyper-conseravtives may get passed, gays and lesbians and their families will still exist. It is time to move on to another topic.