{"id":1977054,"date":"2023-07-19T07:11:07","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T11:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gendered-terms-husband-and-wife-abolished-from-federal-law-under-proposed-democrat-bill\/"},"modified":"2023-07-19T07:13:17","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T11:13:17","slug":"gendered-terms-husband-and-wife-abolished-from-federal-law-under-proposed-democrat-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gendered-terms-husband-and-wife-abolished-from-federal-law-under-proposed-democrat-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposed Democrat Bill seeks to remove &#8216;husband&#8217; and &#8216;wife&#8217; from federal law, eliminating gendered terms."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgendered-terms-husband-and-wife-abolished-from-federal-law-under-proposed-democrat-bill%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1977054&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>A California\u200c Lawmaker\u2063 Aims \u200dto Change Traditional Marriage \u2062Terminology<\/h2>\n<p>A \u2063California lawmaker is \u2062taking\u2062 aim \u2063at the language\u2063 associated\u2063 with\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-bill-seeks-to-ban-police-offers-who-have-expressed-religious-or-conservative-views\/\" title=\"California Bill Seeks To Ban Police Offers Who Have Expressed Religious Or Conservative Views\">traditional marriage<\/a>. Democratic Rep.\u200b Julia\u2064 Brownley of California has introduced the &#8220;Amend the \u200dCode\u200b for Marriage Equality Act,&#8221; which\u2062 specifically\u200b targets two\u200d words historically\u2064 linked \u2063to \u200bmatrimony.<\/p>\n<p>Brownley&#8217;s <a\u2063 href=\"https:\/\/juliabrownley.house.gov\/brownley-introduces-legislation-to-reflect-marriage-equality-in-federal-code\/\"\u2062 target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">57-page\u200d act<\/a> \u2064seeks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/using-the-term-birthing-people-erases-women\/\" title=\"Using The Term \u2018Birthing People\u2019 Erases Women\">remove gendered terms<\/a> \u200dlike\u200b &#8220;husband&#8221; and &#8220;wife&#8221; from \u2062federal \u2062laws\u200b and replace\u2063 them with the\u2063 term &#8220;spouse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The congresswoman \u200dclaims that \u2062this \u2062legislation \u200cis a \u200bresponse\u2062 to the Supreme \u200dCourt \u200dand states \u2064&#8221;rolling \u200bback the \u2062rights \u200dof the\u2063 LGBTQ\u2063 community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Although the\u200d U.S. Supreme \u200dCourt ruled \u2062in Obergefell v.\u2064 Hodges\u200c that same-sex\u200c couples have \u200cthe right\u200c to \u2062marry,\u2063 there\u200b are many instances where the U.S. Code does not respect that\u200b constitutional right,&#8221; Brownley\u2064 stated in a <a href=\"https:\/\/juliabrownley.house.gov\/brownley-introduces-legislation-to-reflect-marriage-equality-in-federal-code\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news\u200c release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She\u200d emphasized the\u2063 importance of Congress\u200c showcasing its \u200dcommitment\u2062 to \u2064equality, especially\u200d in the face of an &#8220;extreme Supreme \u2063Court \u2062and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gendered-terms-husband-and-wife-abolished-from-federal-law-under-proposed-democrat-bill\/\" title=\"Proposed Democrat Bill seeks to remove 'husband' and 'wife' from federal law, eliminating gendered terms.\">state \u200clegislatures \u200drolling \u2064back<\/a>\u200c the rights of the LGBTQ community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The bill outlines \u2064the\u200b specific instances where &#8220;wife&#8221; or &#8220;husband&#8221;\u200d should be \u200breplaced with \u200b&#8221;spouse&#8221; in federal law, as \u2063well as\u200d replacing\u2063 &#8220;husband and wife&#8221; with &#8220;married \u2062couple.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This\u200c move by Brownley \u200daligns with \u200cthe\u200b efforts \u200cof fellow Democrats who \u200bhave\u2064 been\u2063 targeting\u200c gendered language \u2063in \u2064the \u200cname\u2064 of LGBT equality.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, \u2064the Biden administration\u2064 faced criticism\u200c for replacing the\u2064 term &#8220;mother&#8221; \u2064with &#8220;birthing person&#8221;\u200c in \u2062its 2022\u200c fiscal \u200dbudget report.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats have \u200calso\u200d sought \u2062to replace &#8220;gendered&#8221; language in their \u2063$3.5 trillion spending \u200dbill,\u2064 using terms like &#8220;pregnant, lactating, and postpartum \u200bindividuals&#8221; \u200dinstead\u2064 of \u2064&#8221;pregnant \u200cwoman.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While\u200c this issue \u200bhas \u2063become \u200da hot-button\u2063 topic within \u2063the\u200c Democratic Party, \u2064it has\u200b also gained cultural significance, \u2062with \u200dthe Bud Light controversy \u200cinvolving transgender \u200dinfluencer\u2063 <a\u2063 href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/dylan-mulvaney-leaves-us-claims-leave-country-feel-safe\/\" \u2062target=\"_blank\"\u200b rel=\"noopener\">Dylan\u200b Mulvaney<\/a>\u2062 serving \u200bas a recent \u200dexample of its impact.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u2062 <a\u2064 rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/gendered-terms-husband-wife-abolished-federal-law-proposed-democrat-bill\/\">The\u2063 Western Journal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California. 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Julia Brownley aims to redefine traditional marriage by introducing the &#8220;Amend the Code for Marriage Equality Act.&#8221; This legislation specifically focuses on altering the terminology historically linked to marriage in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2015,"featured_media":1977055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1977054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2015"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1977054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1977055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1977054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1977054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1977054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}