Mother/Father Deemed "Archaic"

 From The Christian Institute 

The words “mother” and “father” are being dropped from the US state of Massachusetts’ family law – in order to “be more inclusive to LGBTQ+ parents”.

The Massachusetts Parentage Act, which comes into force next year, replaces references to biological sex with gender-neutral phrases such as “the person who gave birth” and “other parent”.

The legislation, which affects birth certificates, child custody, and surrogacy, was backed by abortion giant Planned Parenthood in addition to LGBT activist groups such as GLAAD.

The state’s deputy governor Kim Driscoll boasted that the Act pushes “outdated norms aside”, while Senate President Karen Spilka claimed “archaic beliefs and laws no longer stand in your way as a parent”.

The new law replaces “man and woman” with “persons”, and ditches several references to “paternity” for “parentage”.

In addition, the Act enshrines surrogacy into the state’s law for the first time.

In 2022, it was revealed that the US state of Connecticut had ditched the terms mother and father from childbirth documents.

Journalist Colin Wright revealed that the state’s documentation on birth certificates, affidavits and immunization referred to the “birth parent” and “non-birth parent” instead of the mother and father.

To obtain proof of birth, one document stated that a written statement was required “by the birth parent attesting to the date, time, and place of the live birth”.

What's next? 

Will they have to ditch the words "brother" and "sister?" If they do, the Episcopal organization may have to reinstate the archaic word "brethren" into its Prayer Book. 

As C. S. Lewis wrote in "The Death of Words",

"Words, as well as women, can be 'killed with kindness.' And when, how ever reverently, you have killed a word you have also, as far as in you lay, blotted from the human mind the thing that word originally stood for. Men do not long continue to think what they have forgotten how to say."