The words “mother” and “father” will be removed from U.S. passport applications and replaced with gender neutral terminology, the State Department says . . . “These improvements are being made to provide a gender neutral description of a child’s parents and in recognition of different types of families.”
To see the trend, read Transgender U.S. Passports - Crossdressing Terrorists?
UPDATE 1/19/11: Obama administration "caught red-handed" in Gay Agenda -- Hillary Clinton reverses course back to "mother and father" on passports
-- From "Obama State Department deletes 'Mother, 'Father' from forms for more correct 'Parent One, 'Parent Two'" by Andrew Malcolm, Los Angeles Times 1/7/11
No more "Mother" and "Father" for the Obama administration's State Department.
This might sound like some kind of psychotic cyber society eliminating family distinctions in favor of PC federal bureaucratic numbers. However, the State Department denies that this change is Democratic political correctness ignoring some obvious biological realities and distinctions.
Regardless, the official federal change at the halfway point of Barack Obama's presidential term is delighting gay rights groups.
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From "'Mother,' 'Father' Changing to 'Parent One,' 'Parent Two' on Passport Applications" by Todd Starnes, FoxNews.com 1/7/11
The [State Dept.] statement didn't note if it was for child applications only.
[Brenda Sprague, deputy assistant Secretary of State for Passport Services, said] “We find that with changes in medical science and reproductive technology that we are confronting situations now that we would not have anticipated 10 or 15 years ago.”
“Only in the topsy-turvy world of left-wing political correctness could it be considered an ‘improvement’ for a birth-related document to provide less information about the circumstances of that birth,” Family Research Council president Tony Perkins wrote in a statement to Fox News Radio. “This is clearly designed to advance the causes of same-sex ‘marriage’ and homosexual parenting without statutory authority, and violates the spirit if not the letter of the Defense of Marriage Act.”
Robert Jeffress, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Dallas, agreed. “It’s part of an overall attempt at political correctness to diminish the distinction between men and women and to somehow suggest you don’t need both a father and a mother to raise a child successfully,” said Jeffress. “(This decision) was made to make homosexual couples feel more comfortable in rearing children.”
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