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Via Newsbusters:
…According to GayStarNews, the “world’s most renowned dictionary of the English language” plans to edit its definition of marriage in future editions in order to “include gay people.” After Britain’s legalization of marriage, Oxford University Press announced that the company was “looking into how same-sex couples marrying in England and Wales will affect” the dictionary-official definition of marriage.
The company intends to track how the word is used over the course of the next year and adapt the definition accordingly. A spokeswoman for the Press stated: “We continually monitor the words in our dictionaries, paying particular to those words whose usage is shifting, so yes, this will happen with marriage.”
One thing’s for sure: “a man and a woman” will be deleted from the definition in future editions, and probably placed with a gender-neutral term such as “two persons.”
Currently, the Oxford definition reads that “formal union of a man and a woman, typically as recognized by law, by which they become husband and wife.” But GayStarNews reported that this definition of marriage was “discriminatory” against gays.