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Eugene

(61,592 posts)
Fri Feb 22, 2019, 02:17 AM Feb 2019

Judge grants citizenship to twin son of gay couple

Source: Associated Press

CHRISTOPHER WEBER
20 minutes ago

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge in California ruled Thursday that a twin son of a gay married couple has been an American citizen since birth, handing a defeat to the U.S. government, which had only granted the status to his brother.

The State Department was wrong to deny citizenship to 2-year-old Ethan Dvash-Banks because U.S. law does not require a child to show a biological relationship with their parents if their parents were married at the time of their birth, District Judge John F. Walter found.

A lawsuit filed by the boys’ parents, Andrew and Elad Dvash-Banks, sought the same rights for Ethan that his brother, Aiden, has as a citizen.

Each boy was conceived with donor eggs and the sperm from a different father — one an American, the other an Israeli citizen — but born by the same surrogate mother minutes apart.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/065ce98fe6544f6e86d323a3cba9307d

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Judge grants citizenship to twin son of gay couple (Original Post) Eugene Feb 2019 OP
Of course, this is the proper ruling. CaliforniaPeggy Feb 2019 #1
That is insane PatSeg Feb 2019 #2

PatSeg

(46,773 posts)
2. That is insane
Fri Feb 22, 2019, 11:24 AM
Feb 2019

How was this ever an issue? So this is what our State Department does now? Our entire government seems to be upside down and inside out.

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