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- From: jim@thinkage.on.ca (James Alan Gardner)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: Charactor Titles
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.172549.4344@thinkage.on.ca>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 17:25:49 GMT
- References: <1992Aug11.183335.25640@pellns.alleg.edu> <1992Aug12.181748.25485@bcrka451.bnr.ca> <1992Aug14.150921.26090@nocusuhs.nnmc.navy.mil>
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- In article <1992Aug14.150921.26090@nocusuhs.nnmc.navy.mil> perez@mgr.hjf.org (Charles Perez) writes:
- >As a non-catholic, I would not address the Pope as "your holiness".
- >I don't think he's holy. Similarly, calling a king "your majesty"
- >would imply that I was one of his subjects, which would be
- >unconstitutional given my citizenship.
-
- President Bush explicitly referred to Queen Elizabeth II of
- England as Her Majesty. It's a term of respect for the office,
- not an oath of devotion. Choosing not to use the term is choosing
- a deliberate insult to the office and the holder thereof. If
- that's not your intent, don't do it.
-
- And by the way, I know a number of people with joint Canadian-
- American citizenship. Since Canadians are still nominally
- British subjects, there can't be any inherent U.S. constitutional
- conflict between being a U.S. citizen and being a subject of the
- Queen.
-
- Jim Gardner, Thinkage Ltd.
-