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AP To Use ‘Husband, Wife’ Regardless Of Sexual Orientation
TPM ^ | Thursday February 21, 2013 | Pema Levy

Posted on 02/21/2013 2:40:27 PM PST by Salman

Edited on 02/21/2013 2:43:33 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

The Associated Press on Thursday updated its stylebook so that married individuals will be referred to as husband and wife, regardless of whether they are in a same-sex marriage. The change comes a week after the AP received criticism for an internal memo designating the word "partners" for individuals in same-sex marriages.


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1 posted on 02/21/2013 2:40:38 PM PST by Salman
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To: Salman

So, who’s the “husband” and who’s the “wife?”

You can’t have two “yin’s” or two “yang’s.”


2 posted on 02/21/2013 2:44:10 PM PST by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: Salman

“Husband” and “wife” will now be synonymous?


3 posted on 02/21/2013 2:45:21 PM PST by Tzimisce (The American Revolution began when the British attempted to disarm the Colonists.)
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To: Salman

how do you tell which is which; AP is stupid


4 posted on 02/21/2013 2:45:41 PM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Salman

As if anyone gives a smelly Obama about anything the AP says anymore.


5 posted on 02/21/2013 2:46:08 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: fwdude
You can’t have two “yin’s” or two “yang’s.”

I know that and you know that, but ...

6 posted on 02/21/2013 2:46:23 PM PST by Salman
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To: fwdude

It’s like a garden hose...
You can’t connect two male end fittings or two female end fittings and not have a leak......


7 posted on 02/21/2013 2:48:01 PM PST by matginzac
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To: Salman

Time to toss my AP Stylebook!


8 posted on 02/21/2013 2:51:33 PM PST by MomofMarine
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To: Salman

Since when does AP get to determine words don’t mean what they actually mean?

Blatantly using language improperly, deliberately, to push an agenda.

What version of the Newspeak Dicionary are these people using?


9 posted on 02/21/2013 2:51:33 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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10 posted on 02/21/2013 2:59:14 PM PST by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: Salman; All

The AP style book has to be exposed as a goebles tool of the left.

it establishes what is or is not crimethink laws.

There is no homosexual based marriage in a supermajority of the states and thus the style book is wrong in most states. In fact in some states forms that state otherwise or LEGAL DOCUMENTS that state otherwise are a crime.


11 posted on 02/21/2013 3:07:05 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Salman

Ahhhh? Isn’t ‘spouse’ a perfectly good non sexual specific word???

These dirtbags just do this kind of thing to piss off normal people.


12 posted on 02/21/2013 3:08:33 PM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Salman

Pitcher and Catcher aren’t politically correct.


13 posted on 02/21/2013 3:28:16 PM PST by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: matginzac

It’s like a garden hose...
You can’t connect two male end fittings or two female end fittings and not have a leak......

You can but you gotta use a whole roll of duct tape and it looks really ugly...


14 posted on 02/21/2013 3:31:35 PM PST by GraceG
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To: Vaquero
Ahhhh? Isn’t ‘spouse’ a perfectly good non sexual specific word???

BUT it is all about the sex -THAT is the only thing that differentiates the perverts from the normal people. Actually, the term disordered sex partner would be more appropriate.

15 posted on 02/21/2013 3:36:02 PM PST by DBeers (†)
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To: Salman

I think AP needs more criticism. A husband is a male. A wife is a female.

Is it becoming obvious that same sex attraction isn’t normal and is most likely curable.


16 posted on 02/21/2013 3:54:26 PM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Salman

Well, how speshul....NOT!!


17 posted on 02/21/2013 3:57:26 PM PST by luvie (All my heroes wear camos!)
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To: LUV W

The sodomite that takes it in the anus will be the “wife”.
We are fallen so far into the pits of depravity there is no hope for this nation. God will return soon and put an end to all this wickedness. I am ashamed of that this country has became.


18 posted on 02/21/2013 4:06:48 PM PST by NKP_Vet
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To: Salman
i guess Thing 1 and Thing 2 is out of the question...
19 posted on 02/21/2013 4:07:19 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Salman

So Lincoln was supposed to have said

http://timpanogos.wordpress.com/2007/05/23/lincoln-quote-sourced-calfs-tail-not-dogs-tail/

If you call a calf’s tail a leg how many legs does it have?

The answer is, of course, 4, because as Lincoln pointed out, calling a thing something other than what it is doesn’t make it that thing.


20 posted on 02/21/2013 4:13:53 PM PST by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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