Don't use words husband and wife...same-sex wedding reforms would axe terms from official documents

dailymail.co.uk ^ | 15 March 2012 | STEVE DOUGHTY

[massmike]

Reforms to allow same-sex marriage will see the words husband and wife removed from official forms, it was revealed last night.

Tax and benefits guidance and immigration documents must be rewritten so they no longer assume a married couple is a man and a woman.

And private companies will be told to overhaul paperwork and computer databases containing the words.

New versions of documents will‘replace references to husband and wife with the more neutral terms spouses and partners’.

The cost of the red tape revolution demanded by the ‘Equal Civil Marriage’ plans will run into millions, according to an official analysis published alongside the consultation paper.

References to go include direct mentions of husband and wife and phrases about couples ‘living together as husband and wife’. Forms and IT systems and guidance for Revenue and Customs staff will need to change, it added.

The removal of gender-specific language also has sweeping implications for marriage services.

If marriage law is reformed in line with the rewrite of red tape, then couples will be required at a civil wedding to pledge themselves to ‘my wedded partner’.

[Crcl1]

My wife and I expedited our wedding because the loony county we live in here in the Peoples Republic of California were change the marraige certs to read “Party A” and “Party B”.

[narses]

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I’m sure somewhere that have all our names on a list for “retraining”. (I’m not sure if I’m being sarcastic or not)