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anotheoldgit | 14:25 Fri 28th Jun 2013 | News
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2350532/Men-wives-women-husbands-gay-marriage-laws-overrule-dictionaries.html

/// Wives can be men and husbands could be women under bizarre word play introduced by the government. ///

/// A spokesman for the Coalition for Marriage, which campaigns against the change, told the Daily Telegraph: ‘We always knew the Government would tie itself in knots trying to redefine marriage, and this shows what a ridiculous mess they’ve created. ///


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Men become wives, women become husbands and now children with three parents????????????????

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2350418/Babies-parents-born-2015-controversial-genetic-treatment-gets-green-light.html
See discussion in the other thread, AOG -- but in brief: yes, people could see the legal problems, but that doesn't stop this from being the right decision.
funny old world isn't it.
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Sorry TheBaBas did not spot your post, thanks ummmm for pointing it out.
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em10

/// funny old world isn't it. ///

It is em and more than likely to get even funnier.
indeed
my friend wouldn't dream of calling her lovely woman partner her husband, they are both female, why would she.
The '3 parents' discussion kicked off in Chatterbank which was a bit of a shame as there are a lot of very interesting isues surrounding it.

Probably most importantly this is around donor mitochondria.

Mitochondria are passed directly from mother to daughter - barring a fe mutations yours are the same as your mothers and grandmothers etc.

This technique does not therefore involve any DNA splicing

You have a mother and a father whose DNA blends to make the off spring.

The Mitochodria are donated - almost in the way a blood transplant happens.

If a donor gave blood for a full transplant in the womb you wouldn't really call this another mother would you?

This is the same thing really.
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/// my friend wouldn't dream of calling her lovely woman partner her husband, they are both female, why would she. ///

I'm afraid it is not simply a matter of who wishers to call who what, but what they define themselves legally.

/// It sets out how every mention of a marriage in any existing laws must now be considered to include same sex marriages, in addition to a wedding between a man and a woman. ///

/// And where legislation refers to a ‘husband’ or a ‘wife’ it must now be taken to mean either a man or a woman who has tied the knot. ///

legally they are married, in a civil ceremony some years ago now.
Lets just ignore this stupid nonsense and concentrate on more important issues please.
To be completely honest...

I don't care. I really don't. The reason that trying to equalize marriage laws has created a few bureaucratic problems is because we have allowed the state to tell us that marriage exclusively means man & woman for so long.
its words, just words....
Still is in my book Kromovaracun.
Fine, that's your choice and you have the right to pursue that. And now I also have the right pursue marriage as I understand it.
Aog , if you see a statute with only 'he' and 'him' in it, do you read that as excluding women and girls? If you do, you are ignorant of the law of England and Wales. Successive Interpretation Acts from 1850 have made it clear that he means she too, unless the context otherwise requires

The talk of dictionaries is ludicrous. All that is being acknowledged is that previous laws have to be amended in their text , or simply interpreted; the latter seems a simpler option, as by the Interpretation Acts; than amending every statute with husband or wife in it, to accommodate homosexual marriages. So we may have an Interpretation Act or an amendment to the existing one saying "the words husband and wife include a party to a marriage between persons of the same sex, unless the context otherwise requires"
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/// The talk of dictionaries is ludicrous. All that is being acknowledged is that previous laws have to be amended in their text , or simply interpreted; the latter seems a simpler option, as by the Interpretation Acts; than amending every statute with husband or wife in it, to accommodate homosexual marriages. So we may have an Interpretation Act or an amendment to the existing one saying "the words husband and wife include a party to a marriage between persons of the same sex, unless the context otherwise requires" ///

Lord Tebbit was right it does sound like 'GOBBLEDEGOOK'.
What is gobbledegook ? Common sense or the law of England (the two may not be mutually exclusive) ?
well I understood it....and, as a female woman lady person, much as I may depracate of the use of male pronouns to mean both women and men, where there is no need for gender specific definition, its use is perfectly good English and has been so for quite some time.

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