Man Files Lawsuit To Take Wife’s Name
So I found this interesting news article about a guy who wanted to take on his wife’s last name, instead of the traditional “other way around.” Check it out.
LOS ANGELES - Mike Buday isn’t married to his last name. In fact, he and his fiancee decided before they wed that he would take hers. But Buday was stunned to learn that he couldn’t simply become Mike Bijon when they married in 2005.
As in most other states, that would require some bureaucratic paperwork well beyond what a woman must go through to change her name when marrying.
Instead of completing the expensive, time-consuming process, Buday and his wife, Diana Bijon, enlisted the
American Civil Liberties Union and filed a discrimination lawsuit against the state of California. They claim the difficulty faced by a husband seeking to change his name violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.“Diana and I feel strongly about gender equality for both men and women,” Buday said. “I think the most important thing in all of this is to bring it to a new level of awareness.”
Mark Rosenbaum, legal director of the ACLU in Southern California, said it is the first federal lawsuit of its kind in the country. “It’s the perfect marriage application for the 17th century,” Rosenbaum said. “It belongs in the same trash can as dowries.”
Isn’t a Buday that thing that squirts water into your ass? No wonder he wanted it changed.
Anyway, this is the ultimate example of being pussy-whipped. Just because ONE DUDE out there is gay enough to give up his last name, means that we have to have some type of legal battle to make it cool for EVERY guy out there to cut his balls off at will. Jeesh.
Suck it up, man! So what if your kids will be made fun of in French Class! Stand by your heritage! Pussy.