So my wife and I have been working for months, trying to get our daughter a passport. The Department of Homeland Security won't let her have one, though. We have a birth certificate. Not good enough.

Ok, how about school records? Not good enough. Government loan for college? Not good enough. Drivers license? Not good enough. Registered to vote? Not good enough.

No, what Homeland Security wants, the one piece of documentation that will allow them to issue a passport to my daughter because it proves better than any other document is...a baptismal record. Yes, a piece of paper with her typewritten name on it is better than a signed, notarized document of her birth.

So much for separation of church and state, huh?