Read the whole article from the Baton Rouge Advocate:
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NEW ORLEANS — A same-sex couple in California has won a federal court ruling that their adopted son’s Louisiana birth certificate must bear the names of both adoptive fathers.
The facts are so clear that no trial is needed, U.S. District Judge Jay Zainey wrote.
Louisiana’s Office of Vital Records must give full faith and credit to the New York State court in which Oren Adar and Mickey Ray Smith of San Diego adopted the boy, he ruled Monday. The office had refused to issue a birth certificate listing both as the boy’s legal parents. The state could appeal the decision.
Refusing to name both fathers on the birth certificate “singles out unmarried same-sex couples and their adoptive children for unequal treatment for the improper purpose of making them unequal to everyone else,” said the lawsuit filed by Regina O. Matthews, of New Orleans, and Kenneth D. Upton Jr. of Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund Inc., Dallas.
Louisiana law does not let two unmarried people adopt a child together, regardless of sex, wrote Carol L. Haynes, representing the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals and registrar Darlene W. Smith.
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