Somehow, FPIW’s action doesn’t surprise meDespite their constant whines of “What about the children????” it’s evident that groups like this one, and the national versions (AFA, FotF, NOM, you name it) could care less about the welfare of actual kids and would greatly prefer they instead be used as political weapons, directed primarily at actual parents of the actual kids.
Do these folks actually think that gay and lesbian couples will cease having and raising children? And if they don’t think that, what do they really think is to be gained by making the households of LGBT families less secure?

Easy!That’s easy, Bob!
Religious fascists want these children poisoned by being raised from these “unnatural” parents and taken to “reeducation centers” so they could be turned into perfect little Stepford children, so they may continue to wage the holy crusade against those evil and unnatural homos and trannies. < /sarcasm>
Just with the Mandatory Motherhood Mob, once they get their goal of “protecting the poor innocent babies”, once it’s been born the religious reicht then cares not for anything else, save for pressuring the women to give up the baby for adoption so it can be raised in a “loving Christian home”.
Groups like the FPIoW make me severely and violently ill.

For those of you who wish to contact themFrom their website (so you won’t have to go there)
Phone: (425) 608-0242
Fax: (425) 608-7216
Email: info@fpiw.org
I am drafting a message that I will email them, and may also print and fax it. It will be a polite message that reiterates what Lurleen writes above: If they care about children, why are they so opposed to a bill that will help protect them? I encourage others to do the same, and for Washington residents to lobby their legislators in support of HB 1267.

Yet again, a claim that ends up as a “yeah, so?”

Currently, if a married woman gives birth to a child, her husband is legally presumed to be the father of that child. HB 1267 would extend this presumption to same-sex relationships, so that a child could be legally presumed to have a second mother

This is yet another perfect example of the sort of shell game these people like to play, this time both with the vocabulary and the concept.
They’re pretending that the “presumed” in the first sentence means something entirely different than what it actually means. What it means is that “under the law, when a married woman gives birth, the legal rights of parenthood are assigned by default to the member of that marriage, regardless of who the biological father is.” They are pretending it means “Society is too stupid to understand genetics, and we look the other way to preserve social propriety.”
It doesn’t matter if the husband had the most public vasectomy on the planet, and the couple were in a public polyamorous affair with the father, and even all three posed for the baby pictures – in which case, socially, the child has two fathers – the legal one and the biological one, unless they take legal steps to change that.
Put that way, the domestic partner (or eventually, same-sex marriage) situation doesn’t change anything. Nobody is saying that the legal status of parent in any way impacts the scientific biological reality that the sperm came from somewhere. Just that the child has two legal parents, with those duties assigned by default to be the members of the legal union.
So, once again, as with so many of these issues, these people are not fighting against extending something new to gay couples (though if fairness requires it, so what), but actually pretending that straight couples aren’t currently doing exactly the same thing today, and same-sex couples are merely asking to be included in precisely the same rules.

It is truly sad thatthese anti-equality beings are so willing to harm anyone who might possibly get in their way, including the young babies & children that, in many cases, would be permanently in foster homes or worse.  ”As long as we can stomp on “teh gays” we are doing “g-d’s work.”
Some may be so ignorant & warped by their own upbringing that they are merely brainwashed followers, but the ones who lead this nasty Christianist Crusade against children have got to be among the most despicable humans on our planet.

Oh, in the name of their GodThis is nothing less than harassment.  After jumping through all the hoops, forms and fees, anyone deemed stable enough in Washington state can adopt kids, right?  And anyone in a domestic partnership or other couple can go through the steps to adopt the child(ren) of the other partner, right?  So what they are trying to do is make it less easy and more expensive both in time and money to become a child’s second parent but only in the case where said parent is the same sex.  This makes them nothing more than a Non-profit 501(c)3 and 501(c)4 hate group if they aren’t going after anyone else (ie straight couples) in the same circumstances.
I’m thinking contacting FPIW won’t change their minds no matter how persuasive I think my message could be.  Is there anything that out of state people can do to help?

Thank youfor asking what you can do to help, even from out of state.  There may be other ways, but here’s what I can think of off the top of my head:
* Contact everyone you know in WA and ask them to ask their WA state legislators to support HB 1267.
* Make a donation to Equal Rights Washington, the state’s main LGBT advocacy organization working to pass this bill. (Disclosure: I am a volunteer for ERW.)
* Keep your eye on legislation in your own state, since Focus on the Family, Family Research Council and similar organizations are actively working to undermine our families in many states.

Meanwhile good news from MarylandCouldn’t find the original link for this news via Lambda Legal case,

Maryland follows California as it will now allow a woman to be named as a parent on the birth certificate of a child born to her same-sex spouse without the court order previously required, Lambda Legal reports.
On February 10, 2011 the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene issued a letter to state birth registrars announcing a procedure change allowing a woman to be named as a parent on the Maryland birth certificate of the child born to her samesex married spouse, without the necessity of a court order. Lambda Legal applauds this advance for Maryland children.

http://lezgetreal.com/2011/02/…

ahhhh?don’t know how the strike thur got there….it’s not supposed to be…read whats underneath., that is the correct stuff.

wonderful!I found the link to the press release.

“This procedure change follows the 2010 opinion of Attorney General Douglas Gansler confirming that, under longstanding Maryland law, out-of-state marriages of same-sex couples receive legal respect and should be treated like any other marriage. Lambda Legal has advocated with the government for this important step for Maryland children, who now can count on having both their moms listed on their birth certificates from their first days in the world.
“Of course, these families should still protect their children with formal adoptions by the non-biological parent, but now children will start their lives with the added security of a birth certificate accurately describing their families.
“The reality is that thousands of children are being reared in Maryland by same-sex couples. Marriage in turn brings thousands of protections to families with children. Same-sex couples should not have to leave their state and marry elsewhere to get critical protections for their children. We urge the Maryland legislature to pass the Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Protection Act to make Maryland families that much more secure.”

if a dash touches the next word,it’s read as “del” code.

Here’s What I Posted to the FPIW BlogOpposing this bill puts children at risk. Children do best in a stable home with two parents-that’s what every reputable study shows. The American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Family Therapy Academy support the right of both same-sex parents to have legal protections-FOR THE BEST INTEREST OF THE CHILD!
(http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/111/1/225)