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re: State to Eliminate “Bride” & “Groom” on Marriage Certificates [W:303]
Why wouldn't you introduce Sally and her lovely wife Danielle?
Shouldn't we though?
There is a clear distinction between introducing Bob Jones from accounting and his lovely wife Linda to someone at an office holiday party and Sally Mead and her lovely Partner B Danielle. Is there not a definite connotation associated with husband and wife that Person A and Person B lacks? More to the point, doesn't the different terminology invoke a clear difference between the two relationships making the use of one very offensive to the other? Perhaps homosexuals should have just accepted "Civil Unions" if marriage between two homosexual people would forever be seen as not real marriage through terminology.
Why wouldn't you introduce Sally and her lovely wife Danielle?