State Dept steps back on gender-neutral parentage

[VanOcc]

State Dept steps back on gender-neutral parentage
By Matthew Lee

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110108/ap_on_re_us/us_us_state_department_2

WASHINGTON – In a bid to forestall a backlash from congressional conservatives, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has ordered the State Department to amend a bureaucratic change that would have eliminated the titles "mother" and "father" with the gender-neutral term "parent" in reports of overseas births.

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Bummer