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“Christian name” is just another way of saying “first name”. Hawaii is saying all birth certificates must have a first name for the child
Yeah might be hard to believe (with all the atheism we have these days) but back then “Christian name” was just a way of saying “first name”
What’s with all the aliasing around many of the letters?
Race: African????? Definitely NOT 1961 terminology!
Christian name is an old-fashioned way of saying “first name”.
“Christian Name” doesn’t mean an English name. In legal documents,a “Christian Name” means one’s given name (first name) while a “Family Name” is the last name. “Christian Names” are unique to the individual while “Family Names” are inherited.
I don’t know what that document you posted is but to the nekkid eye it looks manipulated as all get out. There is something odd with the perspective of the stuff on the right compared to the left. Maybe it is just the way it was photographed.
Somebody smarter than me could make a more technical appraisal I’m sure, but that thing looks weird.
Don’t much matter, his old dead daddy was a British subject that makes him non-American from what I’ve read anywho.
Of course it is very constitutional for a state to dictate what names you can and cannot name your child.
Jech v. Burch. 466 F. Supp. 714 - US: Dist. Court, D. Hawaii 1979.
“There is no known case in which the requirements of “a Christian name” that was “suitable to their sex” were ever enforced. One wonders whether Grand Constable Anne de Montmorency, first owner of the Chateau de Chantilly, could have been so named had he been born in Hawaii between 1860 and 1967.”
“Plaintiffs have a Constitutionally protected right to give their own child any surname they choose. The refusal of the registrar of births to accept the surname “Jebef” as the child’s surname is a deprivation under color of state law of a right secured by the Constitution of the United States.”
No it wasn't. It may have been the will of the people. It may have been on the books. But it could not have been in effect, because it's unconstitutional on its face.
Barack and Hussein are Semitic words, they are not Christian.
No law requiring Christian names can be constitutional. The Constitution does not permit the establishment of a state cult.
As for those names being Semitic, that's an insult. They are clearly of the Moon God Religion.
 Al-Lat, the Islamic Moon Goddess |
Walk around it seven time, then kiss it.
How many times are you going to post this today?
There’s never been a law about ethnic or religious origins of infant names that I’m aware of. But there is something else I find suspicious. Wasn’t 1960s terminology for black racial origin “black” or “Negro” as opposed to “African?”
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Good grief ... the title is an outright lie.
I’ve noticed a lot of laws are not enforced.....I think it was no big deal in 1961 for a kid to be given a foreign sounding name
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Given_name
Christian nameThe term Christian name is often used as a general synonym for given name. Strictly speaking, the term applies to a name formally given to a child at an infant baptism or "christening".
I hate to break it to you but almost all “Christian” names are Semitic in origin. Joshua, Joseph, Jude, Jewish.
Most other given names (Christian names) that are not “Biblical” are barbarian in nature.
William - Gild helm. The name a barbarian would take after killing a Roman soldier and taking his shiny helmet.
Shouldn’t this ridiculous thread be pulled? It is based on a misunderstanding of what “Christian name” means.
You’re being too literal about the Christian name thing, OP.
You could have an ethnic, or Hebrew. and Arabic combination name and be a legal citizen. Proof of this is Ellis Island, where names where shortened, but not all changed to Paul and Mary. Jesus was semitic, after all.