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Mar
18
Written by:
Diana West
Sunday, March 18, 2012 10:46 AM
British "Equalities Minister" Lynne Featherstone
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From the Daily Mail (via WND.com):
Reforms to allow same-sex marriage will see the words husband and wife removed from official forms, it was revealed last night.
Tax and benefits guidance and immigration documents must be rewritten so they no longer assume a married couple is a man and a woman.
And private companies will be told to overhaul paperwork and computer databases containing the words.
Marriage certificates could even be affected by the Coalition proposals, with rules possibly axing terms such as bride and bridegroom.
The reforms – promised by Prime Minister David Cameron last autumn and set out in a consultation paper launched yesterday – intend to open civil marriage to gay and lesbian couples for the first time.
A different category – religious marriage – will be reserved for male and female couples.
The proposals have triggered a furious row, with the Church of England accusing the Coalition of misunderstanding the law of marriage.
But Equalities Minister Lynne Featherstone warned religious leaders not to ‘fan the flames of homophobia’ with ‘inflammatory’ language. ...
How abour State-o-phobia?
New versions of documents will‘replace references to husband and wife with the more neutral terms spouses and partners’.
The cost of the red tape revolution demanded by the ‘Equal Civil Marriage’ plans will run into millions, according to an official analysis published alongside the consultation paper.
Businesses will be given ‘lead-in time’ – a period of grace to change their websites and databases before their failure to recognise same-sex marriage runs foul of the law.
Dear oh dear, Mr. Darcy: Just think about the cost of "editing" about 10 centuries' worth of British "husband-wife" literature ...
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