[Article] 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.
This is a birth certificate not an adoption certificate. The birth certificate needs to show the names of the two DNA contributors, for lack of a better term of art like "father" or "mother".
Demanding that two homosexuals be shown as fathers on the birth certificate is clearly a political stunt at Louisiana's expense, and the State of Louisiana is correctly resisting the travesty, which was no doubt forum-shopped by HRC-related gay lawyers to a liberal judge. (They do this all the time.)
The State needs to give the district judge's draconian time limit (a stunt pulled earlier, you'll recall, by Massachusetts's Supreme Judicial Court in the infamous "marriage" case up there -- clearly showing at least conscious parallelism, if not deliberate tactical imitation by the homocounsel) the brush, and move the matter all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
This is not a matter of the Full Faith and Credit Clause of Article IV of the Constitution; this is a matter of a State record's being changed to count political coup on a State that has not "reconciled" to the homoagenda.
Really quickly. I know it is a BIRTH CERTIFICATE and not an adoption certificate. THEY ARE THE SAME THING for all intents and purposes! When a person is adopted their BIRTH CERTIFICATE IS AMENDED to show their legal guardians as their DNA PARENTS. They don’t, for instance, show an adoption certificate at the DMV when getting a license - they show and AMENDED BIRTH CERTIFICATE that even a government employee can’t tell has EVER been altered...
For instance, my birth certificate that lists my adoptive parents as birth mother and birth father has a registrar and notary’s date of 3 days after my birthdate which should signify the date that the information was received by the state and entered into the computer. However, my adoption wasn’t finalized till a full 3 months later, and up until THAT date the names on the certificate WERE DIFFERENT for those 6 months of time...
I think we’re on the same side in this. The alteration should never occur in the first place, and if it didn’t NY and this couple couldn’t use this law to override LA’s law (where the States’ Rights issue comes in).
My only argument is that the alteration of ANY birth certificate violates my CONSTIUTIONAL RIGHTS and the rights of all adoptees. It has nothing to do with WHO is allowed to adopt. It has to do with the CHILD’S rights to not be subject to having their information changed by the government is all...
There are a lot of things I had trouble explaining on this thread - that’s for sure. Plus, there are some things I’d like to express that in my anger people may have gotten the wrong idea about — for the record I LOVE my “adoptive” mother, and I have never, and will never see her as anything but my “real” mother. The reason I used that word is because when a teenager tries to come to grips with this issue that is one of the things that some will use to express how they feel - even if in their heart of hearts they don’t really mean it as a condemnation of their adoptive parents.
Now that I’ve taken time to relax a bit I may come back to clarify a few things, but I don’t have the time at this moment... If I’ve misunderstood you, or you still have questions, feel free to ask, please... I’ll try to answer as best I can ASAP. I don’t however want to go through how I felt the other day again — I still have too much work to do in regards to my emotions on this issue - so I may have to let further explanations pass for others to address...