(UK) Vicar refuses to allow lesbian couple to both be named as child's mother

[Aristotelian]

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Eugene (16,167 posts)

(UK) Vicar refuses to allow lesbian couple to both be named as child's mother

Source: The Guardian

Vicar refuses to allow lesbian couple to both be named as child's mother

Steven Morris and agency
theguardian.com, Tuesday 3 September 2013 19.52 BST

A British vicar has refused to allow a lesbian couple to both be named as mother on the register of their child's baptism and claimed there was something wrong with the make-up of gay people.

The Rev George Gebauer argued that it would be illegal for both women to be recorded as the one-year-old boy's mother even though both have legal parental responsibility.

He went on to say he felt sorry for gay and lesbian people. "They produce too much hormone — they're imbalanced," he said. "That's the way they are. It's a medical issue."

After the vicar's stance became public, a more senior Church of England cleric stepped in to say that both women – the child's biological mother, Aimi Leggett, and her civil partner, Victoria Leggett – could after all be named as mothers to the child, Alfie, and the baptism would go ahead.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/03/vicar-refuses-lesbian-couple-mother

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Translation - Vicar declined to falsify legal records.

Particularly odd response

shenmue (5,504 posts)
2. Somebody needs to lend him a science book

And a heart.

Somebody needs to lend shenmue a science book so that it can learn how two women cannot both be mothers of the same child.

[ColonelCarrots]

All they ever do is and think it's true.

[miskie]

Science says only one of them could be the child's biological mother. Even if it were possible to fertilize the mother's egg with genetic material from her spouse, (and I imagine one day in the near future it will be) the donating person would be the child's father.

[Freeper]

Another example of how the left changes the language to suit their own desires. Now it is bigoted to insist that the word mother means the woman that actually gave birth to the child. 

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

shenmue (5,504 posts)

2. Somebody needs to lend him a science book

"Son, I am disappoint."

[JohnnyReb]

....on the birth certificate

Mothers name: Jane Roe

Fathers name: Turkey baster made in China.