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[Above: Groucho Marx on one of his memorable appearances on the Dick Cavett Show, this one from 1969.]

Friday on the KCPW/Salt Lake Tribune program "Behind the Headlines" I was commenting on the recent federal court case where a judge cut through the bogusness of Utah law and said that two women who are married to each other are to be designated the parents of a child born to one of them.

My mind, of course, went to the great philosopher Groucho Marx and his song, "Father's Day." (Which I have since found out was really written by Harry Ruby.)

Groucho: According to our mother, you're our father, and that's good enough for us.

George: According to her mother, she's her other mother, and that should be good enough for the state.

You should hear the whole song, so it is posted above.

" ... 'The state has failed to show any legitimate reason, actually any reason at all, for not treating a female spouse in a same-sex marriage the same as a male spouse in an opposite-sex marriage with regard to be recognized as the legal parent' when the child has been conceived with donated sperm, U.S. District Judge Dee Benson said. ..."