Israeli PM Says Gay Dad Can Come Home

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has intervened on the side of a gay father stranded in India with his twin sons.

The father, Dan Goldberg, has been waiting in Mumbai and enduring what can only be described as a bureaucratic nightmare. Goldberg's sons were born to a surrogate mother in India; Goldberg is from Israel, which requires DNA testing for parents of children born outside the country to prove they are the biological mother or father. But Goldberg has been waiting for permission to take the test from a judge who refused to give it, saying it was out of his jurisdiction.

Judge Philip Marcus has delayed other decrees involving gay parents awaiting DNA tests in foreign countries and is quoted as saying of the Goldberg decision, "If it turns out that one of the [purported fathers] sitting here is a pedophile or serial killer, these are things that the state must examine."

Netanyahu overruled the judge's decision on Monday. "I spoke this morning with the Interior Ministry and instructed it to relax the law and let the family return to Israel," Netanyahu said during a meeting of the Israeli senate.

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