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After complaint, Miss. man allowed to change name
Associated Press ^
| 09\26\2012
| HOLBROOK MOHR Associated Press
Posted on 09/26/2012 11:40:16 AM PDT by WKB
A Mississippi man has taken his wife's last name after the ACLU complained he was told by state officials that he would need a court order to do so because it was not traditional.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: aclu; lawsuit; namesake
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posted on
09/26/2012 11:40:19 AM PDT
by
WKB
To: duffee; onyx; DrewsMum; Tupelo; mstar; jdirt; Vietnam Vet From New Mexico; wardaddy; KLT; ...
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posted on
09/26/2012 11:41:37 AM PDT
by
WKB
(After 4 years of Obama I am ready for a little R and R!!)
To: WKB
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posted on
09/26/2012 11:43:40 AM PDT
by
EEGator
To: WKB
Hum? I am not sure I beleive this. When I got married, I just changed my drivers license and social security card, that was it.
A couple we know changed the husband’s middle name to her last name, so they were both hyphenated with the same name.
They never had an issue.
Well, every state has their own rules about this I guess.
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posted on
09/26/2012 11:44:24 AM PDT
by
svcw
(If one living cell on another planet is life, why isn't it life in the womb?)
To: WKB
Tradition isn’t law.......
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posted on
09/26/2012 11:48:33 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Anyone who thinks wisdom comes with age is either too young or too stupid to know the difference....)
To: EEGator
When I got married, 33 years ago, I toyed with the idea of taking my wife’s last name because I hate the last name I am stuck with...............
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posted on
09/26/2012 11:50:30 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Anyone who thinks wisdom comes with age is either too young or too stupid to know the difference....)
To: WKB
"But she's the only surviving kid with her parents, and everybody said my name wrong. It was a dual reason. Now all I have to do is worry about people misspelling it."
How many ways are there to pronounce "Robert McCarthy"?!
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posted on
09/26/2012 11:50:30 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
("I have a new zest for life!"--Calvin from Las Vegas)
To: Red Badger
Badger? Not such a bad last name.
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posted on
09/26/2012 11:53:06 AM PDT
by
Shimmer1
(If my body dies, then let it die, but let my country live.)
To: EEGator
His sur name was Wilingastowokowski and her’s was Jones
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posted on
09/26/2012 11:54:17 AM PDT
by
bert
((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Present failure and impending death yield irrational action))
To: Shimmer1
Had it been that I would have been proud of it. But as it is, I have a name that I despise...............
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posted on
09/26/2012 11:54:29 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Anyone who thinks wisdom comes with age is either too young or too stupid to know the difference....)
To: Shimmer1
Badgers? We don't need no stinking badgers!
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posted on
09/26/2012 11:55:35 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: Shimmer1; Red Badger
Badger? Not such a bad last name.
Agreed, but I would change the first name from "Red" to "Honey".
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posted on
09/26/2012 11:57:07 AM PDT
by
ZX12R
(FUBO GTFO 2012 !)
To: WKB
It may be a male citizen of my state but it is no MAN.
LLS
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posted on
09/26/2012 11:59:58 AM PDT
by
LibLieSlayer
("if it looks like you are not gonna make it you gotta get mean, I mean plumb mad-dog mean" J. Wales)
To: bert
Still unacceptable. He needs to turn in his Man Card.
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posted on
09/26/2012 12:00:36 PM PDT
by
EEGator
To: Red Badger
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posted on
09/26/2012 12:01:33 PM PDT
by
EEGator
To: ZX12R
Really, would anyone care?
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posted on
09/26/2012 12:01:55 PM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: Red Badger
Please consider yourself “NOT” part of my statement above.
LLS
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posted on
09/26/2012 12:02:35 PM PDT
by
LibLieSlayer
("if it looks like you are not gonna make it you gotta get mean, I mean plumb mad-dog mean" J. Wales)
To: Red Badger
But as it is, I have a name that I despise...............I understand fully, Mr. Obama.
To: EEGator; LibLieSlayer
Ugh, no!
I was raised in Mississippi, BTW.......
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posted on
09/26/2012 12:04:44 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Anyone who thinks wisdom comes with age is either too young or too stupid to know the difference....)
To: svcw
Question: What happens when a hyphenated name marries another hyphenated name? Serious.
Does that last name get merged and we have a double-hyphenated last name? Then a quadruple hyphenated last name and so on. . .?
If not, and their child has a single last name, then why hyphenate the name to begin with. . .to show the child the wife is standing apart from the husband? Making a statement to everyone that she is not part of a single family? What does that tell any child they might have, that they are not one family but a temporary arrangement, that they are not one family but separate?
Taking a single last name is to reflect becoming one, becoming a single family. Take the man’s last name (or the woman’s), no matter, by doing so affirms you are one, a family, a single unit.
Just me, of course.
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posted on
09/26/2012 12:06:59 PM PDT
by
Hulka
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