{"id":39336,"date":"2016-12-22T00:20:22","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T03:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=39336"},"modified":"2016-12-22T01:29:29","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T04:29:29","slug":"common-sense-prevails-at-supreme-court-in-arkansas-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/22\/common-sense-prevails-at-supreme-court-in-arkansas-for-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Sense Prevails at Arkansas Supreme Court, for now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a shocking development, the Arkansas Supreme Court <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Society\/2016\/1210\/Arkansas-same-sex-parents-won-t-be-listed-on-birth-certificates-court-rules\">recently ruled<\/a> a birth certificate is supposed to have the names of the child&#8217;s biological mother and father.<\/p>\n<p>In an era in which Americans suddenly require a law to state the millennia-long obvious about marriage &#8212; that it is supposed to be between a man and a woman &#8212; and a law to state the other obvious fact that the little boys room is supposed to be for little boys, it shouldn&#8217;t be a surprise a state&#8217;s highest court had to tell people Mom and Dad are supposed to be on little Johnny&#8217;s birth certificate:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Identifying biological parents is an \u201cimportant governmental objective,\u201d wrote Arkansas Supreme Court Associate Justice Josephine Linker Hart in the majority opinion, explaining <!--more-->that knowing who parents are allows the state to track public health trends and give children genetic information that they might need for medical reasons later on.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article accurately concedes there&#8217;s no law requiring heterosexuals to prove they are the biological parents of the child &#8212; but again, just like marriage and bathrooms, that&#8217;s <em>supposed<\/em> to be a statement of the obvious. Child is birthed by Mom, who is married and faithful to her faithful husband, Dad. There are certainly cases where that isn&#8217;t the case (with regard to the father&#8217;s parentage and in the absence of surrogacy, at least), and there are also cases in which birth certificates have been legally changed for reasons other than error &#8212; but failures do not undermine the legitimacy of the system as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>The Family Research Council <a href=\"http:\/\/frcblog.com\/2016\/12\/truth-wins-arkansas-supreme-court-regarding-parentage-birth-certificates\/\">explained it this way<\/a> [formatting original]:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In other words, [homosexual advocates] would have the law go from presuming something that is <em>almost always<\/em> factually true to presuming something that <em>cannot possibly<\/em> be factually true\u2014namely, that two women are both the biological mother of a newborn child.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The FRC also noted this wasn&#8217;t white male misogyny in action: The opinion was authored by one of the four-woman majority on the Arkansas Supreme Court, Associate Justice Josephine Linker Hart, who, by the way,\u00a0is also an Army veteran.<\/p>\n<p>Homosexual activists apparently decried the &#8220;issues&#8221; that not being on a birth certificate created:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Without this legitimization, parents may struggle to put children on their health insurance or even pick them up from school.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s asinine. To wit, any legal guardian can pick a child up from school &#8212; schools don&#8217;t check birth certificates at the door. It would seem the issue to which homosexuals <em>really<\/em> object is the idea they need a <strong>second document<\/strong> to identify their legal guardianship because their name isn&#8217;t on the birth certificate.<\/p>\n<p>But that makes <strong>homosexuals equal with heterosexuals<\/strong> &#8212; because any heterosexual who does not appear on a child&#8217;s birth certificate <em>requires that same additional documentation<\/em>. <strong>The status quo is &#8220;equal treatment&#8221;<\/strong> &#8212; and homosexuals are now demanding <em>special<\/em> treatment.<\/p>\n<p>One of the dissenting judges tried to say that having one&#8217;s name on a birth certificate was a &#8220;benefit&#8221; of marriage.<\/p>\n<p>That construct &#8212; in which a minor&#8217;s birth certificate could (or <em>should<\/em>) be changed with every divorce, remarriage, or other marital change &#8212; is ridiculous.<\/p>\n<p>Birth certificates were originally intended to serve one purpose: To identify the two people who created the child. Regardless of the drama of life&#8217;s changes &#8212; adoption, death, marriage, or what have you &#8212; one constant in a person&#8217;s life was supposed to be a sheet of paper that said this is <em><strong>where<\/strong> I was born<\/em>, this is <em><strong>when<\/strong> I was born<\/em>, and these are the man and woman <em>to <strong>whom<\/strong> I was born<\/em> &#8212; those responsible for my creation.<\/p>\n<p>A birth certificate is supposed to represent <strong>truth<\/strong> and evidentiary <strong>facts<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Like marriage and the bathroom, however, it would seem the birth certificate, too, has become a playground for those who seek special sexual &#8220;rights&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Truth, however, continues to expose the error of the homosexual movement.\u00a0 And when truth convicts, rather than acknowledge their error, these activists will try to silence &#8212; or even <em>change<\/em> &#8212; truth itself.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-layout=\"standard\" data-action=\"like\" data-size=\"small\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-share=\"true\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a shocking development, the Arkansas Supreme Court recently ruled a birth certificate is supposed to have the names of the child&#8217;s biological mother and father. 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