Venezuela Institutes a List of "Acceptable Baby Names"

I can't say this is a bad thing in principle Take the name Ima Hogg for example or many others. I think once one reaches 18 they should be allowed one free name change if they desire.

Imagine a pooor little kid of a neocon named Karl Rove smith....
 
A state list of approved names, how is this a good idea in principle? Who said anything about name changes?
 
Warren said:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,295488,00.html

CARACAS, Venezuela — Thinking of naming your baby Hersony, Nohemar — or even Superman?

Such odd names might be turned down by the civil registry if Venezuela approves a bill barring parents from giving their children "names that expose them to ridicule, are extravagant or difficult to pronounce," or that raise doubts about whether a child is a girl or a boy.

The National Electoral Council in the past week laid out that proposal in a draft bill circulated to city offices in Caracas.

If approved by the National Assembly, the bill could let authorities turn down names like some of the more unusual monikers currently on the voter rolls: Edigaith, Mileidy, Leomar and Superman.

Current Venezuelan law already has a similar measure saying registry authorities should not accept names that would expose children to ridicule. But the issue has until now been left up to the discretion of individual bureaucrats.

The new bill proposes to create a list of traditional names that could be offered to parents "as a reference" to provide options when they are registering their child's birth. It says the list would have "no fewer than 100 names" and would grow over time.
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This is what the liberals want to do here you know. And if Hillary wins, she'll do it too. She's a closet socialist.

And that will be only the beginning, because it's a slippery slope.
 
Darla said:
This is what the liberals want to do here you know. And if Hillary wins, she'll do it too. She's a closet socialist.

And that will be only the beginning, because it's a slippery slope.
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LOL! :p

Seriously, that's just a bit too Orwellian for me!
 
This would have been very restrictive for me. I took German names from the 1300s, then I found the meanings of the roots of the names, and created the names for my bio-kids....

They wouldn't have been on the list.
 
Darla said:
This is what the liberals want to do here you know. And if Hillary wins, she'll do it too. She's a closet socialist.

And that will be only the beginning, because it's a slippery slope.
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LOL. Yeah. I could see that. Can you imagine the reaction of minority communities to some bureaucrat deciding on the validity of the name they choose?
 
I could see some Liberals thinking about a list here that would perhaps ban names that denote "hate" (ie: Adolph, Hitler, KKK, etc...)
Thank Libertarian Jefferson for the first amendment though.
 
Damocles said:
LOL. Yeah. I could see that. Can you imagine the reaction of minority communities to some bureaucrat deciding on the validity of the name they choose?
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Yeah, there's no way at all this could work in the melting pot US.

List of odd names around me:

Tamaila
Jamira
LaPorche
Marissa


Those all came up on Firefox as red and incorrect, BTW.
 
It would not work here, we are too much of a melting pot.

Although I sure have heard lots of conservatives complain of the names some black people use!
 
LOL...............

Damocles said:
This would have been very restrictive for me. I took German names from the 1300s, then I found the meanings of the roots of the names, and created the names for my bio-kids....

They wouldn't have been on the list.
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why does the name 'Heidi' come to mind when I read this?
I named my Blue tick cross BlkLab retriever this name...she was a hoot from day one..passed away a couple of years ago...miss that dog...she was so cool!
 
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