Omg France is going to ban mothers and fathers

[Enrique]

get ready for some idiotic commentary on this inconsequential bureaucratic decision, which given the source I'm not sure even happened.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/09/25/france-set-to-ban-words-mother-and-father-under-plans-to-legalize-gay-marriage/


France is set to ban the words "mother" and "father" from all official documents under new plans to legalize gay marriage and give equal adoption rights to homosexual and heterosexual couples.

Under the proposed law, only the word "parents" would be used in marriage ceremonies for all heterosexual and same-sex couples, a move that has sparked widespread outrage, The Telegraph reports.

Changes to the civil code would mean swapping all references to "mothers and fathers," in legal documents, with the word "parents."

The proposed law has been met with resistance by members of the Catholic Church.

"Gay marriage would herald a complete breakdown in society," Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, the head of the French Catholic Church, told Christian’s RFC radio last week.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/09/25/france-set-to-ban-words-mother-and-father-under-plans-to-legalize-gay-marriage/#ixzz27VIeVBgQ

[Laurajr]

1. I heard it on the news

I don't get anything but basic cable so it wasn't fox.

[Curtland1015]

2. Wait... I'm confused... banned how and in what contexts?

How often are "mother" and "father" used in wedding ceremonies?

The Parent of the Bride?

[bongbong]

3. More poutrage from repigs

It's in France, so why should they care ... but they will, and they will try to tie their whining to Obama in some twisted way.

Never underestimate repig's ability to blame a problem on somebody else.

[southernyankeebelle]

4. They can do what they want I would still call mother and father because that is what they are. I

don't have a problem with gay marriage. What the children want to call them is up to the parents and the children in that family. I have no problem with 2 moms or 2 dads.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Lions, and tigers, and bears, oh, my! Who cares? Sexist language should go away.

[surrealAmerican]

6. I don't see anything wrong with it, but ...

... how does that work in a language where nouns are gender specific?