New Law being looked at.....Is is right? or is it Sinful?

[Michlow]

Originally Posted by revrandy

I don't really have a problem with it...depending on who has the better last name....

I could see a man with the last name of Butts wanting to take his wife's name... or Teats... for that matter..

Many right now choose to do the hyphonated thing. Which if you ask me if the better alternative. Though there are probably some combinations that wouldn't be prudent. Like Butte-Tocks

[Rico]

Originally Posted by Michlow

Many right now choose to do the hyphonated thing. Which if you ask me if the better alternative. Though there are probably some combinations that wouldn't be prudent. Like Butte-Tocks

Or Butte-Munche

[Michlow]

Originally Posted by Rico

Or Butte-Munche

Especially if the man in questions' first name is Harold (or some derivative of)

[Rico]

Originally Posted by Michlow

Especially if the man in questions' first name is Harold (or some derivative of)

Heheheheheheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeee!

[Trouvere]

My legal name is Dartez-Cooper. I did it because my father had no living male heirs to carry on his name after both of my brothers died at eighteen and
twenty five.It was a way to carry his name.I haven't planted it on my children but it used to be a tradition that children carried both the womans last name and the dads last name.The womans last would be the middle name.If my parents would have followed suit my name would have been
D.Frith-Dartez instead of Dartez-Cooper.I have it on all my licenses state and medical.

[Rachel]

It's not a sin. It's a preference - totally up to the couple.

[Sam]

I don't see anything wrong or sinful with that. I guess we can call ourselves whatever we want.

I've preached on the wife taking the husband's name and comparing it to the Bride of Christ being called by her Husband's name. I've used Gen 5:2 where God called "their name (singular) Adam." It's a good thought for preaching and I believe we are called by our Beloved's name but I don't see how that should result in some kind of a civil law requiring married couples to use the husband's last name only. Those things are just traditions and vary from time to time and place to place.