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Brittingham calls the concept "maariage" -- pronounced the same as "marriage", butspelled differently (two a's instead of two r's). In her blog entry titled "NewVocabulary for Adult Unions: A Primer", Brittingham introduces other words such as"maary" (not to be confused with "marry", but pronounced the same), "maatrimony" and"spowse". Brittingham snubs the term "wedding" in favor of "ajoinment" (note no "d"as in "adjoinment") and lays out the rules for ajoinment, which are minimal andsimplistic.
Brittingham defines "maariage" in-depth on her blog ("Kim Brittingham's Bloggitudes"at www.hailqueenk.blogspot.com), but it's little more than a call for marriagewithout same-sex restrictions, while adding a freeing spirit of self-createdceremony and a flexibility that allows for inclusion of religious practice withoutthe necessity for it. In other words,  maariage is marriage for all progressivepartners.
Brittingham's guidelines for "maariage" clearly state that it "is not a stateintended to be entered into exclusively by same-sex couples", which is good news forfolks like Brad Pitt, who refuses to marry until everyone is free to do so legally.
Brittingham's proposal is at once sensible and delightfully devilish. She notes inher blog that, " If you're a same-sex couple facing off with Pat Robertson on atelevision news program and he tells you that  You can't be married,Â' just shrugyour shoulders and say,  No, but we can be maaried.Â' Â
And while  maariage isnÂ't legal anywhere  yet  the spirit behind it and itsterminology are catching on. A lesbian in Ireland remarked,  As soon as I readabout (maariage) on the Internet, I started using the new spellings immediately, andI told all my friends, gay and straight alike, to do the same.Â
What inspired this tirade-turned-linguistic phenomenon?  I got tired of pundits andpoliticians attempting to define marriage for everyone, especially when itÂ's basedon an interpretation of a religious text that not everybody believes in. I wantedthere to exist a form of marriage these narrow minds couldnÂ't touch or even pretendto speak of with any authority. So I thought, hey, why not create a completelyseparate thing? It exists already  itÂ's called The Freedom to Love Who I WantWithout the Imposition of Someone ElseÂ's Ideals -- itÂ's just not universallyaccepted and respected. IÂ'm just giving it a vocabulary and a definition, puttingit in its own category, making it easier to demand equality for it because it hasits own name. Let the would-be dictators have their marriage. But  maariageÂ' issomething they have nothing to say about.Â
To find out how  maariage works, visit Kimberly BrittinghamÂ's Bloggitudes atwww.hailqueenk.blogspot.com .
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