[Ansteorra] Royalty - Same Sex Consorts

[Chris Zakes]

At 10:27 PM 10/30/2011, you wrote:

>On Oct 30, 2011, at 20:52, Tim McDaniel <tmcd at panix.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 30 Oct 2011, bsmall at suddenlink.net wrote:
> >> Of course this brings up the interesting question of what might
> >> happen should we have a Queen/Queen reign. ... Would there be 2
> >> tournaments, one for each Sovereign?
> >
> > A terminology note: the Glossary in the SCA Governing Documents
> > defines
> >
> >    Sovereign and Consort: The victor in the Royal Lists and the
> >    victor's consort, respectively, after their Coronation or
> >    Investiture.
> >
> > So by this definition, there would be exactly one Sovereign (the
> > winner of Crown Tourney) and one Consort (the one for whom they
> > fought).
> >
> > Daniel de Lindo


>Why nitpick the terminology, after all couldn't that be changed if 
>corpora is changed? Why try to use what's currently in the documents 
>to support changing them?


Yes, it would be possible to change Corpora to create co-sovereigns, 
so that the person who won Crown Tourney was no more important than 
the person they fought for. But I think that would be an even bigger 
change to SCA culture than having same-sex rulers.

<shrug> Realistically, the Board can do anything they want, up to and 
including changing the kingdoms into anarcho-syndicalist communes 
where we take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for 
the week; but all the decision of that officer would have to be 
ratified at a special biweekly meeting, by a simple majority in the 
case of purely internal affairs, but by a two-thirds majority in the 
case of interkingdom issues. But doing *that* would make the SCA a 
very silly place.

         -Tivar Moondragon