Do gay people change their names when they get married?

[_Malcolm]

A link for the Elton John baby news:-

http//www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/6580168/the-complex-parentage-of-elton-johns baby.html

I would think this causes problems for any hard-line LDS as Egg donor births screw up God's eternal plan, particularly if you have no idea as to who the donor is.
Who is the Mother here, the woman who donated her egg or the woman who carried the baby for 9 months.?

A complex situation methinks.

[_Daniel2]

It will make genealogy name finding more difficult.

No. But it would reduce the number of lines. Unless of course one was heterosexually married beforehand and had children. In that case, one wouldn't be "gay" in the first place.

LOL... that's funny, BC.

Of COURSE "formerly-heterosexually-married" individuals can be "gay." I offer myself (not to mention many of my friends) as proof that that is the case. As the saying goes, "sleeping in the garage doesn't make you a car."

I would have no reservations about taking the last name of the man I marry, except for one issue that is a universal dilemma faced by every divorced parent facing remarriage: the fact that my three children carry my last name, and remarrying would mean disassociating myself from the name they were born with.

Darin

[_MsJack]

I've always wondered what two hyphenated names people do when they have a child. Giving all four names is impractical and it seems unfair to just pick the first of your two hyphenated names. I wonder how that decision gets made. What sounds pleasing to the ear? Paper, rock, scissors tournament? I must know.

Along those lines, Frederica Mathewes-Green had an amusing piece for NRO a few years ago, Goin' to Take a Hyphenated Journey. She admits that her hyphenated last name was a huge pain, and all three of her children dropped it when they got married themselves.

For one LDS couple I know, the husband kept his last name and the wife kept hers, and they simply alternated on which name the kids got. It was a little weird having people ask the siblings why they had different last names, but they didn't think it was too bad.

My uncles don't have children, so it's never been an issue, though "the Rev. Dr. Firstname Lastname-Lastname" is on the side of mouthful.

[_bcspace]

Of COURSE "formerly-heterosexually-married" individuals can be "gay."

They can certainly choose to play that role.....

[_kavintenison]

I don't think so they changed their name...