The Identity and Passport Service (IPS) has announced that it will make changes to its passport application form in response to pressure from homosexual activists.
The new form, to be introduced by December this year, will carry the option of ‘parent 1’ and ‘parent 2’ in addition to ‘mother’ and ‘father’ after claims were made that the current format is “discriminatory” and fails to include homosexual couples who look after a child.
The IPS acknowledged that the changes were made after intervention from the homosexual rights group Stonewall. A Home Office ‘Diversity Strategy’ document states: “IPS is working with Stonewall in response to an issue about having to name a ‘mother’ and ‘father’ on the passport application form.”
Family values advocates have challenged the move, warning that it “denigrates” the role of parents.
Norman Wells, of the Family Education Trust, said: “Fathers and mothers are not interchangeable but have quite distinct roles to play in the care and nurture of their children.
“To speak of ‘parent 1’ and ‘parent 2’ denigrates the place of both fathers and mothers.
“Much as the equality and diversity social engineers might wish it were otherwise, it still takes a father and a mother to produce a child.”
He went on to say: “Like the Labour administration before it, the Coalition seems to be in Stonewall’s grip.
“It is high time ministers started to represent the interests of the country as a whole and not capitulate to every demand made by a vocal and unrepresentative minority.”
The Office for National Statistics released figures last week which showed that only 1.5 per cent of the population describe themselves as homosexual or bisexual.
Today’s news follows a recent announcement from the Home Office that they would be consulting on whether to remove ‘male’ and ‘female’ from passports in order to protect transgender persons from embarrassment at passport control.
Andrea Williams, CEO of Christian Concern, said:
“This announcement shows the incredible sway that the homosexual lobby has over public policy decisions. We cannot allow such a small minority interest group to redefine the family for the rest of us. Every child deserves a mother and a father.”
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Christian Concern