Randy Forbes (R-VA): Passport forms assault traditional families

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Forbes slams same-sex 'parent' fields on passport forms

U.S. Rep. Randy Forbes is accusing the State Department of conducting an assault on "traditional American family relationships" by changing how citizens can refer to their parentage on passport applications

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[lastrega]

Oh no, is someone oppressing the straight people again? Poor defenseless creatures; we should throw them a telethon.

[erunamiryene]

... I kind wish I could do this and see how much money I get. XD

[homasse]

The sad thing is, if couched in the right terms, you could probably get a lot. -_-

[dramaturgy]

What is it going take to clue people in that this is not oppression?

[erunamiryene]

I'm starting to think nothing will actually accomplish that task.

[apocalypsos]

"These subtle, but nonetheless significant, changes undermine the traditional American family relationships that have served as the bedrock of our nation since its inception."

Oh, please. I hate how these assholes always talk like in the past everybody had a happily married mom and dad and a golden retriever and a white picket fence. I can't even say that in my own damn family. My maternal great-grandparents were married to other people, then either got divorced or widowed and hooked up without getting married for the next fifty years. My paternal great-grandmother got knocked up on a cruise and gave my grandfather up for adoption. And my paternal grandparents got divorced, my grandmother remarried, her new husband adopted my dad, and that's how I still have two grandpas. Everybody's family is different.

[arisma]

"Everybody's family is different."

What a shocking concept.

[apocalypsos]

Well, for that douchebag, it seems to be.

[arisma]

Another sterling example of magical My Experience Is Universal style thinking, for sure.

[nothingmuch]

"It's a bridge too far to say we need to do away with our whole nomenclature of mother and father," Forbes said.

But we're not. "Mother/father/parent" includes mother and father.

His bill would "require all federal agencies, contractors, and government-sponsored enterprises to use the words 'mother' and 'father' when describing parents in all official documents and forms," according to a statement by his office.

So much for Republicans being the party of small government & less needless, nonsensical regulatory bureaucracy.

[crytam]

Most Republicans say they want small government, but whenever it comes to defending their morals and beliefs, there are no ends.

[shoujokakumei]

Get the government out of our lives!!!! (And into gay people's bedrooms and women's uteruses!)

[drakyndra]

Just to clarify: In Australia, there is no information about your actual parents on the passport itself, it's only relevant for the application, which will only be seen by the authorities processing it. I assume America is the same way.

Is this guy seriously claiming it's undermining families to refer to someone as a "parent" on a form only a few people, who should be obeying privacy laws anyway will see?

[nothingmuch]

yep