It was explained to me that the Governor (or his appointee) is in charge of authorizing any changes to the birth certificate form, and that this was Romney's little way of sticking it to the queers... the assumption is that they would hold up in Mass, since it was Mass officials who cleared them in the first place, but it seems to me that some backward judge in tennessee or texas could easily use the altered documents as an excuse to tear a family apart...
course, that could just be from my experience as a kid of a queer, growing up in texas, with the ever-present knowledge that I could be taken away at any time... paranoid much? nah...
and yeah, the second-party adoption fee is quite the insult-added-to-injury, no? I mean, $2K just to get a judge to let my partner ADOPT hir own freakin' kid?!?!??! You've got to be kidding me! Luckily, the tax credit we got from declaring me "head of household", thanks to the bean, is paying for it this year... convenient!
Okay, clearly I am avoiding work with these long comments, so I will attempt to extract myself from el-jay and return to work. Also known as "see you in 10 minutes!" lol!
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Date: 2007-06-12 04:10 pm (UTC)course, that could just be from my experience as a kid of a queer, growing up in texas, with the ever-present knowledge that I could be taken away at any time... paranoid much? nah...
and yeah, the second-party adoption fee is quite the insult-added-to-injury, no? I mean, $2K just to get a judge to let my partner ADOPT hir own freakin' kid?!?!??! You've got to be kidding me! Luckily, the tax credit we got from declaring me "head of household", thanks to the bean, is paying for it this year... convenient!
Okay, clearly I am avoiding work with these long comments, so I will attempt to extract myself from el-jay and return to work. Also known as "see you in 10 minutes!" lol!