Those kids may be yours biologically, gentlemen, but who cares? You’re gay, and Texas doesn’t approve of gay marriages, so you can’t adopt them.

Charming. More than that, unnerving. At the moment the only name on the twins’ birth certificates is the surrogate mother’s.

“Without [co-adoption], if something happened to either me or Joe we don’t have any legal recourse to keep the other’s biological child,” Hanna said. “The state could come in and separate these two brothers . . . We want to reiterate how important it is for a state to recognize each family, whether it’s same-sex or opposite-sex, and really to ensure everyone has equal protection from the state.”

And Texas always proclaims itself as having the best of everything. Including closed-mindedness and prejudice among its elected officials, I guess.

via Off the Kuff