“The words ‘mother’ and ‘father’ will be removed from U.S. passport applications and replaced with gender neutral terminology, the State Department says.
‘The words in the old form were ‘mother’ and ‘father,’” said Brenda Sprague, deputy assistant Secretary of State for Passport Services. ‘They are now ‘parent one’ and ‘parent two.’….
Allan Sherman would certainly have had a problem rhyming his classic song if he lived in politically correct Obama Administration where everything must bow to same-sex rights groups.
So are we allowed to call the people behind the decision, “Idiot 1”, “Idiot 2”, etc.
Hat Tip Father John Mallow, SDB
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How do they rank 1 and 2? Poor parent #2 gets second fiddle – discrimination?
Makes me think of Thing 1 and Thing 2 from Cat in the Hat. Just shows the level things are being done on.
Now people can fight about who gets to be Parent #1 and who’s stuck with being #2. I think a fair solution is that the male parent should always get to be Parent #1. In case of same-sex arrangements, #1 should be whichever “parent” has the most facial hair.
I think they should arm wrestle for title of Parent #1.
The next battle will be to get parent 3, parent 4, parent 5… parent n on the passports. After all – why should any child be so deprived as to be limited to only two parents? The more the merrier. And shouldn’t adults be allowed to be so expansive in their affections as to be able to have as many spouses as they want?
just how entrenched is this madness? I used to think it was funny.how can this be allowed?why is this not mocked and out right dismissed. i think i am standing on the deck of a ship, trying to identify what is approaching; at first i thought it was a school of dolphins but now see torpedoes. God forgive the good ship America.
I respectfully disagree with Greg. Maybe not the one who carries the child, but Definitely the one who changes the diapers, bathes the squirmy infant, gets spit on at feeding, wrestles the little critter into onesies and jammies, And Still Comes Up Smiling, that and that alone is Parent One!
I agree that deciding whether Mom or Dad is Parent 1 will be difficult. It will feel like deciding who I love best. It’ll take an awful lot of therapy to fill out a simple form.
I can’t believe they would even suggest parent 1 and parent 2. How loaded is that! Should at least be parent red and parent blue, no that wont work…parent A and parent alpha, parent fruit and parent loop, maybe you should just be able to make up your own…
All this “political correctness ” is starting to give me a headache.
how does one define a parent? is it even possible?
(In a history of law precedent text) “…and after a few years, the courts established the precedent in divorce cases by normally awarding child custody to parent 1 as part of divorce decrees, because they were ‘obviously’ number one.”
I know work in a place that has “gender neutral” washrooms?? Why because we have someone who believes they are somewhere in between being a woman and a man?
Wow, go figure! I give up! PC has reached an all time low.