You've got to be kidding me.
"Couple fight gender-neutral language in wedding license"
Last month, Rachel Bird exchanged vows with Gideon Codding in a church wedding in front of family and friends. As far as Bird is concerned, she is a bride.
To the state of California, however, she is either "Party A" or "Party B."
Those are the terms that have replaced "bride" and "groom" on the state's new gender-neutral marriage licenses. And to Bird and Codding, that is unacceptable.
"We are traditionalists - we just want to be called bride and groom," said Bird, 25, who works part time for her father's church. "Those words have been used for generations and now they just changed them."
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And Rachel Bird described her position as "personal - not religious."
"We just feel that our rights have been violated," she said.
These poor people. How will they ever cope with their marriage documents using the legal terms (y'know, the kind found on all the other legal documents) "Party A" and "Party B" instead of the traditional laymen terms "bride" and "groom"? LOOK AT HOW OPPRESSED THEY ARE.
via Feministe
Last month, Rachel Bird exchanged vows with Gideon Codding in a church wedding in front of family and friends. As far as Bird is concerned, she is a bride.
To the state of California, however, she is either "Party A" or "Party B."
Those are the terms that have replaced "bride" and "groom" on the state's new gender-neutral marriage licenses. And to Bird and Codding, that is unacceptable.
"We are traditionalists - we just want to be called bride and groom," said Bird, 25, who works part time for her father's church. "Those words have been used for generations and now they just changed them."
[...]
And Rachel Bird described her position as "personal - not religious."
"We just feel that our rights have been violated," she said.
These poor people. How will they ever cope with their marriage documents using the legal terms (y'know, the kind found on all the other legal documents) "Party A" and "Party B" instead of the traditional laymen terms "bride" and "groom"? LOOK AT HOW OPPRESSED THEY ARE.
via Feministe