Posted on 07/13/2014 4:45:08 PM PDT by markomalley
The governor of California has signed a bill into law that redefines marriage and replaces the terms ‘husband’ and ‘wife’ with the generic term ‘spouse.’
Governor Jerry Brown signed SB 1306 on Monday, which will take effect on January 1, 2015.
“Under existing law, a reference to ‘husband’ and ‘wife,’ ‘spouses,’ or ‘married persons,’ or a comparable term, includes persons who are lawfully married to each other and persons who were previously lawfully married to each other, as is appropriate under the circumstances of the particular case,” it reads. “The bill would delete references to ‘husband’ or ‘wife’ in the Family Code and would instead refer to a ‘spouse,’ and would make other related changes.”
The legislation had been presented by Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to overturn the 9th Circuit ruling that declared California’s Proposition 8 unconstitutional. The matter hails back to 2008 when voters in California were presented with a ballot initiative asking if residents wished to enshrine marriage in the state as being between a man and woman. The measure, which sought to add an amendment to the state Constitution to protect the Biblical definition of marriage from infringement, passed by five percentage points.
However, with the courts ruling against Proposition 8, Leno sought to likewise change California law to alter the definition of marriage and reflect same-sex nuptials.
“I am pleased Governor Brown has recognized the importance of this bill, which makes it explicitly clear in state law that every loving couple has the right to marry in California,” Leno commented in a statement this week. “This legislation removes outdated and biased language from state codes and recognizes all married spouses equally, regardless of their gender.”
But Christians in the state have expressed disappointment over the matter, opining that the government has been wrong to override the will of the people.
“This bill continues the pattern we’ve been seeing the last few years of politicians ignoring the people to advance the agenda of marriage redefinition,” Matthew McReynolds, attorney with the Pacific Justice Institute in California, told Christian News Network. “What these politicians don’t want people to know is that their actions are illegitimate. Contary to media myths, Prop. 8 has not been invalidated on a statewide basis. Instead, these politicians are exercising raw power, ignoring the Constitution and counting on the people and the courts not to hold them accountable.”
Gov. Brown also generated outrage last fall when he signed a bill that mandated insurance companies in the state to provide coverage for infertility treatments for homosexuals.
“The way the law works, gay and lesbian couples would simply have to testify that they have been having sex for a year without producing a child to be considered ‘infertile,’ which is [100% of the time], since baby-making requires necessary components missing in homosexual activity,” commented writer Ben Shapiro.
“It doesn’t mean situations in which two gay men are both infertile and incapable of impregnating a surrogate mother,” he continued. “It means situations in which gay or lesbian couples can’t make a baby by having sex with each other. In other words, every single gay and lesbian couple on the planet.”
Of course, if a pro-life state attempts to legally affirm the definition of personhood to include ALL humans from the moment of conception, the courts would bend over themselves to declare that unconstitutional.
And they just destroyed traditional marriage which they said they weren’t going to do.
Banning words. This is exactly as stupid as any such nonsense that came out of the Soviet Union.
So if a Priest says in conclusion of a ceremony : I now pronounce you Husband and Wife”...What? What happens by law?
California and the US sink ever deeper into perversion.
Everyone knows what a marriage is, and what a husband and a wife are.
Everyone is also free to pretend otherwise. (Though not without consequences.)
Lunatics
So on those occasions when I take my wife to California I can no longer call her my wife? Astounding.
CC
The US has become Sodom and Gomorrah
i will always use those terms.
fu jb
Link to the full-text Free Republic thread.
More than that. He’s re-writing the Bible. I’m 63 and can’t have too much time left. Thank God!
How about, “I now pronounce you top and bottom”?
But gays often call their sweeties “husbands” and lesbians talk of their “wives.” Is that still permitted?
If I ever tell my wife that she is my spouse, she’ll kill me. California needs a good 12.0 earthquake.
An 8.5 will take care of the problem.
And to think all this good stuff they do for us cost us only half of our income.
Nothing. It's about language in the statutes, not language that people choose to use.
Huh? What would be stopping you?
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