Comments on: Their Children’s Birth Certificates: The Next Fight in LGBT Equality

By: shell

shell — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 03:50:16 +0000

I don’t care where they put it — on the Birth Certificate or somewhere else, but the two people who created a child (male and female) must be in the record somewhere. I always hear, “Oh, needing to know your genetic background is very rare.” (As when you need medical info.) Of course, are you willing to bet you won’t need it? And, more and more, you will need to know this — with all the genetic shenanigans.

But if we’re just talking about names on a birth certificate, who cares? As long as the genetic info is somewhere, carry on.

By: Alison

Alison — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 02:01:00 +0000

The obsession with putative genetics is weird. Either you want a birth certificate to show the names of the people who are responsible for a child, or you want to show the identity of the child’s genetic material.

While the former is useful most often, there might be a reason for the other kind of identification. But there is NO need for this Louisiana nonsense.

By: MadProfessah

MadProfessah — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 18:14:13 +0000

This is an extremely important case to follow.

By: Elliott

Elliott — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 14:52:44 +0000

Ahh Lisa, thank you