New York State legalizes same-sex marriage

[Gob]

For decades, passport applicants have been required to provide details of their mother and father.

But now, after pressure from the gay lobby, they will be given the option of naming ‘parent 1’ and ‘parent 2’.

The change, which is due to take place within weeks, has been made following claims the original form was ‘discriminatory’ and failed to include same-sex couples looking after a child.

It has led to claims the official travel document is being turned into a ‘PC passport’.

Campaigners for family values said the move ‘denigrated’ the roles of parents bringing up children in traditional families.

Norman Wells, director of the Family Education Trust, said: ‘Fathers and mothers are not interchangeable but have quite distinct roles to play in the care and nurture of their children.

‘To speak of “parent 1” and “parent 2” denigrates the place of both fathers and mothers.

‘Much as the equality and diversity social engineers might wish it were otherwise, it still takes a father and a mother to produce a child.’

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[Scooter]

Yes, I'm sure that mothers and fathers the world over are going to feel "denigrated" by the way they are referred to on a passport application. And what do the "distinct" roles of mother and father have to do with applying for a passport?

[loCAtek]

Oh, it's all part of background checks that you know your mother's maiden name and/or father's middle name, etc. That's assuming that no one else but close kin would know that information, and so it verifies that you're you.

[Econoline]

Oh, it's all part of background checks that you know your mother's maiden name and/or father's middle name, etc. That's assuming that no one else but close kin would know that information, and so it verifies that you're you.

Of course, requiring your mother's maiden name assumes that (a) your mother is married and (b) she changed her name when she got married. (Both of which are becoming increasingly unlikely in today's world.)