The Obama administration has now officially descended to a level one step above the old Conehead skit on Saturday Night Live. The State Department has decided that those people you used to call your mother and father should now be designated “Parent One” and “Parent Two.”
Beldar and Prymatt, the Conehead “Parental Units,” will sleep well tonight.
Fox News has details of your antithetical antecedents:
The words “mother” and “father” will be removed from U.S. passport applications and replaced with gender neutral terminology, according to the State Dept.
“The words in the old form were ‘mother’ and ‘father’,” said Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Passport Services Brenda Sprague. “They are now ‘parent one’ and ‘parent two.’”
A statement on the State Department website noted: “These improvements are being made to provide a gender neutral description of a child’s parents and in recognition of different types of families.”
Sprauge said the decision to remove the traditional parenting names was not an act of political correctness.
No, of course, it wasn’t. Perish the thought. That had absolutely nothing to do with it.
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“We find that with changes in medical science and reproductive technology that we are confronting situations now that we would not have anticipated 10 or 15 years ago,” she said.
Gay rights groups are hailing the decision.
In the words of Gomer Pyle, “Surprise, surprise, surprise.”
“Changing the term mother and father to the more global term of parent allows many different types of families to be able to go and apply for a passport for their child without feeling like the government doesn’t recognize their family,” said Jennifer Chrisler, executive director of Family Equality Council.
Her organization lobbied the government for several years to remove the words from passport applications.
In other news, a State Department spokesman announced that passports will longer designate an individual’s sex. “Sexual identity is a fluid, ambiguous situation,” the spokesman said, “So in the future American passports will simply designate their holders as ‘human.’”
We made up that last paragraph, but would it surprise you to read that announcement in some future State Department press release?
Source: Fox News
