Heterosexual Civil Partnerships - should they be allowed?

[kimahri]

Nugh, kay.

 

[Anonymous]

The only reason Civil Partnership is around is due to the fact a gay couple cannot be married due to religion/law or whatever reason there is. If anything I would prefer to be married than be in a Civil Partnership, which to me the whole thing is just the same anyway just the name is different.

Simply by using another name for gay couple UK government discriminates them. Content-wise civil partnership and marriage are the same.

I am just not sure why people want it to be called anything other than marriage, or am I missing something.

In the Netherlands and other countries that have civil partnership available for heterosexuals, there are legal differences between civil partnership and marriage.

 

[jokerman]

^You can't really say that it's discrimination just to call it something else. Discrimination is unfair treatment of someone, based on unfair prejudices, and civil partnerships grant gay couples the same legal rights as marriage.

 

[Nic]

This won't add anything to the discussion, but it is awesome. And contains A LOT of swearing.

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