What normally is a legislative slam-dunk – a resolution honoring dads for Father’s Day – turned into a debate on “alternative lifestyles” in the California state Assembly.
According to a report in the Stockton Record, Republicans this week either withheld their support of voted against the resolution because it focused on “nontraditional” dads, including families with two fathers.
…The resolution, sponsored by lesbian Democratic Assemblywoman Christine Kehoe, mentions stepfathers, foster fathers, single fathers and families headed by two fathers, the paper reports. However, it fails to cite traditional fathers who are married to the mother of their children.
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Why “Only in California” when the rest of the country will be following us within 5 years? All things these days, good, bad, and indifferent, are “First in California,” second in New York (and Boulder), then all over.
I really wish the rest of you would learn from our mistakes, so that “Only in California” would be as commonsensical as “Only in Canada.”
Good point Erik,
We might laugh at some ideas coming out of California, but before we know it there national.