Forum says Christian community is not confused about ruling on men assuming wives’ surnames [SOUND]

# The South African National Christian Forum says the Christian community is not confused or moved by the Constitutional Court ruling permitting that men can legally take their wives’ surnames. The court confirmed that sections of the Births and Deaths Registration Act were unconstitutional, effectively upholding a lower court’s ruling. The forum’s president, Marothi Mashashane, says all that the judgment did was to declare that there is no obligation for couples to change surnames: