Posted on 07/04/2008 6:27:41 PM PDT by ckilmer
It’s been a frequent topic in our house, with one party agreeing with you, and me believing that there are in fact people who would care. Certainly not his diehard supporters, but on the fence types who would not like the idea of a man who was an illegitimate child as president.
Probably affected by voter age.
He was quite obviously conceived out of wedlock, but the legal definition requires birth in marriage, not conception. A child born 10 minutes after the ceremony is just as legitimate under the law as one born 10 years later.
BIG PRINT THERE :-))))))))))))))
Oh, I agree no one would care that he was conceived out of wedlock. FGS, so was one of the Reagan children.
I am talking about if his parents never officially married before his birth. (My best guess is that they never officially married even after his birth). That I think some people would care about and the original birth certificate would reveal whether he was legitimate in this sense of the term.
I am not clear on how the law would view him if his parents were officially married and the powers that be were aware that his father was still married to someone else at the time of his birth.
bump what is the CURRENT SCOTUS ruling?
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