Two Daddies on Birth Certificate

(New Orleans, Louisiana) U.S. District Judge Jay Zainey has issued a ruling that the names of both same-sex adoptive fathers must appear on a boy's birth certificate.

"What a great Christmas present for these guys!" said Kenneth D. Upton Jr. who represented Oren Adar and Mickey Ray Smith of San Diego.

In his ruling Monday, Zainey said Louisiana's Office of Vital Records must give full faith and credit to the New York State court in which Adar and Smith adopted the boy, he ruled Monday. The office had refused to issue a birth certificate listing both as the boy's legal parents.

Excuse me for being naive but I've always thought that a birth certificate is the official record of a live birth as opposed to a simple piece of paper relegated for use in arbitrary PC cutting and pasting. Apparently, I've always been wrong.

Of course, given that it's so easy to manipulate parentage on a birth certificate, it would seem to be a piece of cake to revise dates, sex, ethnicity and place of birth. Just think, anyone could be 10 years younger (or older), you could pick-your-sex and ethnicity, and you could be born in Windsor Castle (or Kansas). All that's needed is some politically correct judicial grease in the bureaucracy and history becomes silly putty.

Understandably, the practice of revising birth certificates because somebody boo-hooed a good case to a judge would render the documents worthless with regard to biological and demographic information.