hmm, Yes, good idea. fuck with home birthing advocates I fucking dare you.
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Thank you. Firefox updated today and now every word I type here in the edit box is underlined in red as a mispelling. Makes it difficult to self edit. Not being spelling bee material doesn’t help me either. 
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What the ever living fuck are you talking about?
@Melz2 just beat me to it.
You are somehow seeing this woman being refused her passport on the basis that her birth certificate isn’t good enough as somehow someone using a family bible record as being religious discrimination?!
As @anon48584343 posted above, the PRIMARY top items for getting a passport are a fully valid undamaged passport (even if expired) and A BIRTH CERTIFICATE (with standard requirements). The bible record is a secondary item. No one is saying it cannot be used.
When it comes to identifying oneself with proper documentation as described by law…YOUR FUCKING SADNESS IS IRRELEVANT.
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Although, ironically, Real Americans™ seem like the folks who’re most likely to be tripped up by this latest bit of fuckery.
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A family bible is not a legal document.
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Insert mike-drop gif here_____.
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It’s that simple, of course. Family bibiles are invaluable tools for doing historical and genealogical research, but they aren’t a legal document.
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OH hey, speaking of o_0 when it comes to gov wanting docs - one time I tried to get a drivers license renewed and they wouldn’t take my SS card because I laminated - but would take a check stub from my employer.
The SS would take time and talent to forge. The check stub I could literally print off from checks I bought from an office supply store.
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*technically a mike drop
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Sadly i had to get a new SS card reissued because my parents laminated it when i was a wee baby. Years later as an adult the DMV had a fit about it being laminated, but in their defense it does say on the card that it is invalid if laminated… but why the hell would you keep a card sized legal document un-laminated?
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Of course Obama’s birth certificate is fake, obviously a white American middle-class woman who was 9 months pregnant opted to take a 36 hour plane flight to Africa, then a four-hour bus ride out into the bush to give birth in a village with no modern medicine or doctors around. Duh.
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Especially given the cheap, crumbly paper stock mine was issued on. I keep mine in a plastic sleeve but every time I have to take it out of the safe it looks a bit more frayed.
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And the fact that a government office erroneously asked for one over a legally notarized official birth certificate is especially concerning.
In my vast admin work experience, I used to be employed at a temp agency processing the paperwork of all applicants; including their proof of id, as needed for the I-9 form in order to secure legal employment. I had to fill that form out literally hundreds (if not thousands) of times:
A passport is the preferred form of proof of id, then driver’s licenses and state issued ids, then birth certs.
Family bibles?
Not so much.
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Well, that’ll be up to the people in charge now won’t it. Since they get to make this up as they go along it will be whatever they tell you it is. But once they tell you, you’d better believe they’ll stick to their guns. Unless you know somebody more important than them. This is how authoritarian societies work. Capricious corruption becomes the normal everyday experience.
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Watching civilization slowly self-destruct really sucks, man.
May you live to see the dawn.
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Well, you know it’s primarily those foreigners and un-Amercian socialist hippies who have their children at home. Any good upstanding citizen will have their child in a hospital like God and Milton Friedman intended. So of course, anyone without a hospital birth certificate is probably not really an American (/s for those who were wondering)
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It really really does. Thank you for the kind words.
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I used to quote Prince lyrics in my everyday conversations because I thought it made me sound “cool and quirky”; now, I actually mean it.
I hope we survive all this fuckery.
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No Fambly Bibble, but I do have a family copy of ‘Science of Life’. Does that count?
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…more?
I don’t see why not
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