A House Democrat from California named Julia Brownley has introduced a bill that would erase the words ‘husband’ and ‘wife’ from federal law, replacing them with the gender-neutral term ‘spouse.’
The college campus-ification of America continues apace.
FOX News reports:
‘Husband,’ ‘wife’ scrubbed from federal law under House Democrat bill, replaced with ‘spouse’New legislation proposed in the House would remove the words “husband” and “wife” from federal law and replace them with a range of terms such as “spouse.”The “Amend the Code for Marriage Equality Act,” introduced by California Democrat Julia Brownley, seeks to amend a number of existing laws by striking the terms “husband” and “wife” from their text. The proposed legislation moves to substitute the words with phrases such as “a married couple,” “married person” and “person who has been, but is no longer, married to’’ depending on the context.”Although the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Obergefell v. Hodges that same-sex couples have the right to marry, there are many instances where the U.S. Code does not respect that constitutional right,” Brownley said in a statement released on Friday.”Now more than ever, with an extreme Supreme Court and state legislatures rolling back the rights of the LGBTQ community, it is imperative that Congress showcases its commitment to supporting equality,” she continued. “This common-sense bill will ensure that our federal code reflects the equality of all marriages by recognizing and acting upon the notion that the words in our laws have meaning and our values as a country are reflected in our laws.”
“Common-sense bill.”
Note how she uses this as a cudgel to bash the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Washington Times has more:
The bill would also replace references to “husband and wife” with “married couple.” A “former husband” or “former wife” would become a “person who has been, but is no longer, married.”This isn’t the bill’s first rodeo. Ms. Brownley introduced the legislation in 2021, 2019 and 2017, carrying the torch for now-retired Rep. Lois Capps, California Democrat, who brought the bill in 2015.The 2021 bill had 39 cosponsors, all Democrats.The legislation, which has little chance of passing the Republican-controlled House, comes with the Biden administration moving to supplant sex-based terms such as “mothers” with “birthing people” in an apparent nod to biological women who identify as men.
This might be little more than virtue signaling, but that’s only as long as Republicans hold the House. Does anyone doubt that this would pass if Democrats controlled both chambers?
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