Deep down I don't mind what people call it; but if we start getting hung up on these labels I can see it evolving to ridiculous extremes.
If you refer to me as a "husband" with a "wife" in a "marriage" then it is unequal treatment to describe a loving same-sex couple as "partners". And since it would be an intrusion to define either of same sex partners in the "wife/husband" nomenclature, the only way we can get equal treatment in society is to demand that ALL couples define themselves only as "partners". Why anything else would be just discriminatory and wrong, implying one form of pair-bonding as normal and anything else as different or aberrant. Language creates thinking, after all. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
