Ethan and Aidan are 16 months old and and are already facing government issues. Ethan and Aiden Dvash-Banks are twins and their parents are a married gay couple. Even though the couple shared a surrogate and one of the parents is a U.S citizen (the other is an Israeli citizen) the government decided to only give one of the boys citizenship. Both of the parent’s names are on the children’s birth certificates but the government ruled that only the child with the DNA of the american citizen would become an American citizen. The other child was denied citizenship. Both of the children should be eligible for citizenship because they both have an american father. They are treating this married gay couple as if they are unmarried. This indicates that the government has anti LGBT views. This story shines a bright light of the discriminatory undertones of the american government. “That is something that keeps us up at night – the safety and well being of our child,” says Andrew (the father with U.S citizenship). The fact that the government has made a father scared for the well being of his child is frankly, horrific. All of this just because the government is biased against gay marriage and/or gay people who choose to have children. This government decision could pull this family apart.