Heterosexual Couple Ironically Discovers What it’s Like to be Gay
As reported on Pam’s House Blend, a young couple refused to sign their California marriage license to protest the inclusive language contained therein.
After the California Supreme Court ruled in favor of marriage equality, “Bride” and “Groom” were replaced with “Party A” and “Party B” on the California marriage license.
The couple insists that the State change the marriage license to read “Bride and Groom” or they won’t sign it. Until the State of California succumbs to their wishes, the “newlyweds” [sic] will remain unmarried in the eyes of the law.
Ironically, they’ll soon discover what every committed gay couple knows: Not being legally married sucks.
This story also has me wondering if the couple knows the etymology of the word “bride”?
The term [bride] used to mean ‘daughter-in-law’, as newly married women at one time moved into the husband’s family home. Further back, the word possibly comes from the Teutonic word for ‘cook’. Source: http://www.answers.com/bride
Of course, if they fit the typical social conservative mold (I don’t know if they do or don’t), this young man and woman will already believe that the female spouse should obediently obey and serve her male spouse and his family!
The etymology of “groom” befits the man’s superior status:
The term “groom” has the Indogermanic root of “earth” (for “ghmún”), which evolved into Latin humanus and Germanic and English “man” and “groom”. Source: http://www.answers.com/groom
The groom is simply the man and he ain’t servin nobody! Heck, he already had to give up that damn rib to begin with–isn’t that enough sacrifice!?
Of course, there is that other definition of the noun, “groom” -
A person employed to take care of horses or a stable.
But OMG that would mean that the wife is the property of the husband and would be treated similarly to the man’s steed! :-O
