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Title: State Dept steps back on gender-neutral parentage
Post by: VanOcc on January 09, 2011, 01:57:16 PM
Post by: VanOcc on January 09, 2011, 01:57:16 PM
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 (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.
By Matthew Lee
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110108/ap_on_re_us/us_us_state_department_2 (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.
Title: Re: State Dept steps back on gender-neutral parentage
Post by: LordKAT on January 10, 2011, 01:26:21 AM
Post by: LordKAT on January 10, 2011, 01:26:21 AM
Bummer