Posted on 03/20/2009 12:11:23 PM PDT by pissant
NEW ORLEANS—Louisiana has 15 days to add the names of both fathers to the birth certificate of a boy born in Shreveport and adopted by a gay couple from out-of-state, a federal judge has ruled.
The state is asking the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn the ruling by U.S. District Judge Jay Zainey, and to halt the order in the meantime, state Attorney General Buddy Caldwell said Thursday.
"The federal district court has significantly misinterpreted Louisiana vital records law, forcing Louisiana to import and adopt New York law," he wrote in a brief e-mailed statement.
Oren Adar and Mickey Ray Smith, who now live in San Diego, but adopted the boy in New York state, want both their names on his birth certificate.
State officials say that's illegal because, under Louisiana law, two single people cannot adopt a child. Zainey ruled in December that because the adoption became formal in New York, the Office of Vital Records must recognize that state's adoption law on the matter.
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Like on marriage certificates, one male and one female by virtue of the meaning of the word MARRIAGE.
I should have been born when words DID have meaning!
Of course you are getting your ‘facts’ from a scientific study?
Adoptees should defintately be allowed to know who their conceivers or should I say conceptors (?) are. Think it is a shame that Steve and Steve or Eve and Eve want to claim to be a child’s birth parents since it is not possible. What’s next conception certificates?
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