I reckon we need a new word for marriage. Let the church keep it, and just invent a new one that means "publically aknowledged, legally recognised commitment to a consenting adult partner for life". They good just update their laws with the new word. And since most of the authors and journalists are liberals anyway they might start using the new word. The church would be happy, because "marriage" is still unblemished by the horrors of equality. And gay folk could participate in an institution that over time would come to mean far more than church-endorsed but socially-sidelined marriage. Everyone's a winner!
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Here, here!
Haley / 9:31am / 21 June 2004
cheers to that. now i just have to find someone to have a gay publically aknowledged, legally recognised commitment to a consenting adult partner for life.
erin / 9:44am / 21 June 2004
Yay.
USE A BOARD.
Jem / 9:47am / 21 June 2004
What happened to That Girl? You know. The one I spoke to on the phone.
Ryan / 9:54am / 21 June 2004
Civil Union?
Willem / 5:34pm / 21 June 2004
Nah. That’s a lamo name. It sounds like its trying to be lightweight on purpose.
Rach, can you invent a word for it? I’ll put it in that dictionary.
Ryan / 6:04pm / 21 June 2004
invent a word for what? you know the rules, definition required.
Rach / 6:19pm / 21 June 2004
For the publically aknowledged whatsit I was talking about up the top. Like marriage, but without the religious stuff, so that marriage doesn’t have to change it’s meaning. If you’ve got a conflict over the definition of a word, then just make two words.
Ryan / 6:44pm / 21 June 2004
thats a tops idea.. so simple. would husband/wife change too? mind you most liberals/gay people say parter already, so you could use that.
James / 7:15pm / 21 June 2004
Life Partner – that’s the one & its being used by ppl – i think.
Anmol / 7:58pm / 21 June 2004
but you would have to come up with a new word for when people break up.. I mean divorce is for broken marriages
James / 9:31pm / 21 June 2004
how about “union” and then we can all make lame jokes about joining it … maybe not …
lesley / 10:43pm / 21 June 2004
I doubt the church would be as protective of “divorce”. :)
What about “agglutination” or “coadunation”? I’ve never heard them used for anything else, and they’re synonyms for “union” apparently. Perhaps a bit on the daggy side.
Ryan / 8:25am / 22 June 2004
connubiality?
Ryan / 8:27am / 22 June 2004
[comment cont.] and when talking about someone’s “marriage” you could refer to the “state of the union” … or not …
lesley / 8:17pm / 22 June 2004
wat abt “equally commited”?
Anmol / 1:25am / 23 June 2004
I think it needs to be a single word, that you can easily turn into a verb as well. It needs to be a word, that is completely new, or doesn’t already have much association with anything else. But “equally committed” is the sort of theme I’m thinking.
Ryan / 2:00pm / 23 June 2004