he U.S. State Department recently announced that it is replacing the “father” and “mother” fields on passport applications with “parent 1” and “parent 2.”

A statement on the State Department’s website noted:

“These improvements are being made to provide a gender neutral description of a child’s parents and in recognition of different types of families.”

Homosexual rights groups lauded the decision saying that “changing the term mother and father to the more global term of parent allows many different types of families to be able to go and apply for a passport for their child without feeling like the government doesn’t recognize their family.”

Family Research Council (FRC) President Tony Perkins said the decision is “clearly designed to advance the causes of same-sex ‘marriage’ and homosexual parenting without statutory authority, and violates the spirit if not the letter of the Defense of Marriage Act.”

The new application will debut in February. Click HERE to read more.