Posted on 05/07/2008 1:15:59 PM PDT by forkinsocket
All Michael Buday wanted to do was take the last name of his wife, Diana Bijon, when they married.
But it took two years, a lawsuit alleging sex discrimination and a change in California law before he picked up his new drivers license in the name of Michael Bijon on Monday.
"It was personal. I feel much closer to (Diana's) father than I do mine. She asked me to take her name and I thought it would be very simple. I never imagined the state would make it so difficult," Michael Bijon, 31, told reporters.
He discovered it would take a $350 fee, court appearances, a public announcement and mounds of paperwork to make a change on his driving license that is routine for women who marry.
After months of frustration, the Los Angeles computer programmer and his ER nurse wife Diana, 29, took their problem to the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California.
A double barrel name would have been no problem, nor would Diana and Michael deciding to each keep their birth names. But California and some 40 other U.S. states provided no place on the marriage license application, and driving license, for the groom to choose the bride's surname.
"Women have fought for so long for equal rights and it feels like this is part of that fight," said Diana Bijon. "When we got married, the law basically said, 'Don't be silly, only a woman can change her name when she gets married."'
"I am really, really proud of him. Not many men would do this," she said.
A subsequent lawsuit led to a new California state law guaranteeing the rights of both married couples and registered domestic partners to choose whichever last name they prefer on their marriage and driving licenses.
"This disposes of the rule in California that the male surname is the marital name to the same trash bin where dowries were once tossed out," said Mark Rosenbaum, legal director of the Southern California chapter of the ACLU.
Looks like she fell outta the Ugly Tree & hit every branch on the way down.
Most Hispanics have two surnames: one from their father and one from their mother but their parents must have two surnames too so siblings could end up with two different surnames. It must drive Social security and IRS crazy since they change the order of their surnames any time they wish.
And the women they married probably liked the idea of an emasculated man that wouldn’t enforce “the patriarchy” on them.
But some day, they’re going to need a MAN to act the ROLE of a man, and he isn’t what they married.
Exactly.
People are way over reacting here on this. In essence, he changed his name, something many men and women do all the damn time.
This is no big deal.
Did anyone say that it shouldn’t be “allowed” by law?
Yeah, any law prohibiting this is STOOOOOPID.
The comments are on the degradation of society and the emasculation of men.
Thank you for injecting some sense into this. My husband has a nephew that refuses to use his dad's name and instead took his mother's maiden name because his PoS dad molested him and his sister while they were young. His dad is dead now, he was such a basket case and serial abuser that no one wanted to be around him, and he finally shot himself in head. I'd never say this in front of hubby...who, bless his tender heart, loved his brother in spite of all his faults and tried to help him recover many times...but I personally said good riddance. There are all kinds of good reasons to reject a lousy dad and therefore his name. It doesn't mean the man is emasculated.
They drop the peones names and keep the patrones names.
/johnny
LOL!!!
Throw another faggot on the fire!
Geez, is her last name Beaverblaster or something?
One of my frat bros wanted to change his name and that was his final decision. We made him go to bed.
Oh, c'mon. She's no supermodel, but she's nowhere near ugly. IMO, she's pretty attractive, and has what appears to be a very nice figure:
I was commenting on the fact that she and her husband look an awful lot alike....
It also doesn't make any sense to me when a wife takes her husband's name. An odd tradition, if you ask me.
Why didn’t this guy just go change his name??? But, no let’s change the laws to suit one whiner....wow.
She’ll get a surprise when he gets arrested at a rest area playing Truck Driver Bingo
Oh, just odd if you don't understand Western Judeo-Christian culture.
LOL! Was that South Park reference?
Does this give HIM the right to complain when the toilet seat is left up?
Think about it.
If you did just a little research, you'd find plenty of Christian, western countries where this is not done.
Yeah, the stupidest, yet most memorable sequence of the show.
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