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?What If Joey Has Two Daddies???

By ADF Alliance Alert

William C. Duncan writes at the Ruth Institute Blog: "A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently issued an opinion ordering the State of Louisiana to issue an amended birth certificate for a child born in Louisiana but listing as the child?s parents two men . . . The implications of these errors are significant. The decision clearly dilutes the crucial constitutional concept of 'interstate pluralism, in Professor Jeffrey Rensberger?s phrase. It allows judges to substitute their judgments of law for the valid actions of legislators and administrative officials charged with making and enforcing a State?s law. It threatens to create a new national standard of parenting whereby a couple can force an unwilling State to participate in their project of acquiring a legally motherless or fatherless child."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on March 30, 2010 (boomark / email).