Supreme Court sides with same-sex couples in Arkansas suit

[TexasTowelie]

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has ruled for same-sex couples who complained an Arkansas birth certificate law discriminated against them.

The justices on Monday issued an unsigned opinion reversing an Arkansas high court ruling that upheld the law.

Under the law, married lesbian couples had to get a court order to have both spouses listed as parents on their children's birth certificates.

Arkansas routinely lists a woman's husband as a child's father, even if he is not the biological parent of the child. The same-sex couples want the same presumption applied to the married partner of a woman who gives birth to a child.

Read more: http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2017/jun/26/supreme-court-sides-same-sex-couples-arkansas-suit/

[DeminPennswoods]

1. Why not a additional line for biological parents

on birth certificates? It certainly makes sense for things like family medical history and benefits like social security or child support to know who the biological parents are. And, it's easy enough to black out that info if it's a closed adoption when the child the parent/child requests a birth certificate.

Times have changed. The traditional sequence of man, woman, marriage, children is being found less and less today. There are not only same-sex marriages; but single parent, by choice, families; blended families; adoptive parents; surrogate parents etc.