Beyond marriage redefinition: Societal degenderization and indifference to biological parenthood
Jennifer Roback Morse has this article on Mercator.net. She writes:
. . . Can we be confident that even same sex marriage is the ultimate goal? I think the honest answer is no. The freight train of same sex marriage will not stop at the station called simple “equality.” The legal equivalence of same sex couples with opposite sex couples means that marriage will no longer be society’s most reliable method of attaching mothers and fathers to their children and to each other. Marriage will become a gender-neutral creation of the state, which actively detaches children from at least one of their parents. Parentage will not flow automatically from the marital union, but will have to be assigned by the state. The final stop on this train is the complete de-gendering of society, along with the continual incursion of the state into civil society.
The state must hold that mothers and fathers are completely interchangeable. Biological parents married to each other become officially equivalent to one parent plus their lover. The state will be indifferent as to whether children have any connection with their biological parents . . .
In 2005, ADF attorney Glen Lavy prepared this Homosexual Activism Chart outlining the scope and goals of the homosexual agenda. It stopped at normalization of same sex relationships. But, degenderization and indifference to biological parentage are obvious byproducts from marriage redefinition, especially when coupled with the development of new reproductive technologies and accelerating trends in family law.
Indeed, today’s Drudge Report includes the following headlines:
UK: Women Win the Right to Children Without Fathers
Around the country, courts are awarding parental rights to non-parents over the objections of natural parents. The most recent example can be seen in today’s ADF press release. See this post: Trial on Thursday: ADF represents biological mom opposing parental rights for former lesbian partner in Montana.
Prof. Melanie B. Jacobs described the family law trends in her article, The Case Against Paternity Fraud, which appeared in Amicus (2003-2004), a publication of Michigan State Law School. She writes:
The family unit has dramatically changed in recent years. In an era in which individuals and couples, heterosexual and homosexual, are embracing new reproductive technologies to create families, the biological connection often does not assist in establishing legal parentage for intended parents . . .
What determines a parent has been the subject of much scholarship, and many scholars are now embracing nontraditional definitions of parentage and family. For example, both the American Law Institute (ALI) and the newest version of the Uniform Parentage Act (UPA) recognize the fact that parental status and legal parenthood may be established without regard to biological connection . . .
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