According to a report from CNS News, New York State Supreme Court Justice Doris Ling-Cohan decided that New York State?s Domestic Relation Laws were unconstitutional and because the wording does not provide equal treatment for those in same-sex relationships. "The words 'husband', 'wife', 'groom' and 'bride', as they appear in the relevant sections of the Domestic Relations Law are and shall be construed to mean 'spouse', and all personal pronouns, as they appear in the relevant sections of the Domestic Relations Law, are and shall be construed to apply equally to either men or women."
Hmmmm? Let?s see what our good friend Noah Webster has to say about this?
HUS'BAND, n. s as z.
1. A man contracted or joined to a woman by marriage. A man to whom a woman is betrothed, as well as one actually united by marriage, is called a husband. Lev.19. Deut.22.
2. In seaman's language, the owner of a ship who manages its concerns in person.
3. The male of animals of a lower order.
4. An economist; a good manager; a man who knows and practices the methods of frugality and profit. In this sense, the word is modified by an epithet; as a good husband; a bad husband. [But in America, this application of the word is little or not at all used.]
5. A farmer; a cultivator; a tiller of the ground. [In this sense, it is not used in America. We always use husbandman.]
HUS'BAND, v.t. To direct and manage with frugality in expending any thing; to use or employ in the manner best suited to produce the greatest effect; to use with economy. We say, a man husbands his estate, his means or his time.
He is conscious how ill he has husbanded the great deposit of his Creator.
1. To till; to cultivate with good management.
2. To supply with a husband. [Little used.]
WIFE, n. plu. Wives. [G., a woman.]
1. The lawful consort of man; a woman who is united to man in the lawful bonds of wedlock; the correlative of husband.
The husband of one wife. 1 Timothy 3.
Let every one of you in particular, so love his wife even as himself, and let the wife see that she reverence her husband. Ephesians 5.
2. A woman of low employment; as strawberry wives. [Not in use.]
GROOM, n.
1. A boy or young man; a waiter; a servant.
2. A man or boy who has the charge of horses; one who takes care of horses or the stable.
3. In England, an officer of the king's household; as the groom of the chamber; groom of the stole or wardrobe.
4. Groom for goom, in bridegroom, is a palpable mistake.
BRIDE, n.
1. A woman new married.
But the name is applied to a woman at the marriage festival, before she is married, as well as after the ceremony.
2. A woman espoused, or contracted to be married. The case of Lewellyn, prince of Wales. Henry's Hist.of Britain, B.iv.ch.i.,sect.2. [This is the true original sense of the word.]
Where the hell does this lunatic get off deciding that these terms are to be replaced with the word spouse?
SPOUSE, n. [L., to engage.] One engaged or joined in wedlock; a married person, husband or wife. We say of a man, that he is the spouse of such a woman; or of a woman, she is the spouse of such a man.
First of all, without even getting into the moral implications of allowing same-sex marriage, this genius decides that she has the legitimate right to change the text within established law from the bench in order to reflect her own personal views. Judges are given the power to decide on cases based on established law and do not have constitutional authority to create or modify the law. That is a duty reserved for the legislative branch of government. This is the reason why we have separation of powers. IMO, Justices who attempt to rewrite established law from the bench should be immediately disbarred.
Yes my friends, I am one step closer to gathering up the goslings and getting the flock outta NYS.
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