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http://lambdalegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/200_issues_fair-courts2.jpg200200In 2006, Oren Adar and Mickey Smith, a gay couple, legally adopted their Louisiana-born child in the state of New York, where a judge issued an adoption decree. When they attempted to get an accurate new birth certificate listing both fathers as parents, in part so Smith could add his son to his health insurance,...