WND’s Fake Article About Father-Son Marriage

The Worldnetdaily has its typically dishonest headline on this article: “‘Father’ to marry ‘son,’ with court’s blessing!” OMG! They were right! Gay marriage leads to fathers marrying their sons! Except when you read the article, they aren’t father and son at all — and gay marriage would have avoided the whole situation, not caused it.

The Pandora’s box of same-sex marriage has just released a new pairing unimaginable a few short years ago.

Nope. The exact opposite, actually. Same-sex marriage would have prevented the entire situation from happening, as we’ll see in a moment.

Norman MacArthur and Bill Novak, father and son, though not biologically, will soon be husband and … whatever, reports the Patch of Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

The pair, both in their 70s, have been together for 50 years and registered in New York City as domestic partners in 1994. But when they moved to Pennsylvania, they discovered their domestic partnership wasn’t recognized, and legalized same-sex marriage was nowhere on the horizon.

Needing to take care of estate-planning issues, the pair pursued a novel legal approach. Novak adopted MacArthur in 2000. The fact their parents were deceased removed any legal objection.

“It was the only legal method we could use in Pennsylvania to give underpinning to our relationship,” MacArthur said.

When the United States District Court declared unconstitutional Pennsylvania’s marriage laws prohibiting same-sex marriage unconstitutional in 2014, Novak and MacArthur wanted to tie the knot in marriage, but their earlier legal gambit now became an obstacle. Pennsylvania law doesn’t permit marriage between parents and children.

So, a week ago, the father and son’s Petition to Vacate Adoption Decree was approved, and the pair simply became two single men now allowed to marry.

So let’s add it up: They aren’t father and son at all, they’re a gay couple who have been together more than 50 years. The only reason they had to do that fake adoption was because Pennsylvania did not allow same-sex marriages 15 years ago. So this isn’t a “Pandora’s box” of same-sex marriage opening up these horrible effects, same-sex marriage would actually have avoid it altogether. Just more fear-mongering from the Worldnetdaily.