Civil partnerships: Law to be changed for mixed-sex couples

Rubik

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45714032

Just announced.

Red-Squirrel_2

Ridiculous. I hate to use the word ‘snowflakes’ but this is one rare occasion where it’s actually correct.

onomatopoeia99

Good news, at last.

phryne

About time! The law was discriminatory against heterosexual couples as it stood.

Heterosexual couples in England and Wales will be able to choose to have a civil partnership rather than get married, Theresa May has announced.

The government says the move will provide greater security for unmarried couples and their families.

And it will address the "imbalance" that allows same-sex couples to enter a civil partnership or get married - a choice denied to heterosexual couples.

Though what the legal difference is between a civil partnership and a marriage I am not sure.

Comms69

phryne wrote: »

About time! The law was discriminatory against heterosexual couples as it stood.



Though what the legal difference is between a civil partnership and a marriage I am not sure.

No legal difference. I think Civil Partnerships are pathetic, whether straight or gay.

phryne

Comms69 wrote: »

No legal difference. I think Civil Partnerships are pathetic, whether straight or gay.

Well this is why I couldn't understand why homosexuals wanted gay marriage, if a civil partnership is exactly the same. It was a complete non-issue, then. Still, got to appease the P C brigade..

Mojisola

phryne wrote: »

Though what the legal difference is between a civil partnership and a marriage I am not sure.

The couple will be legal partners but not husband and wife.

Some people don't want to be legally husband and wife because of the historical patriarchal links to those words.

Rubik

What gets me is that those demanding Civil Partnerships are extended to opposite sex couples don't understand two basic facts: one, that CPs were introduced as a sopp to gay couples because the Govnt. weren't prepared (at the time) to extend marriage to same sex couples -CP are a bit of an insult to same sex couples IMO. and two - CPs are not "marriage lite" - they have (largely speaking) the same legal responsibilities and restraints as marriage, the main difference being pension rights. If couples want the legal and financial protection of marriage, get married. You don't have to have any religious element in a marriage ceremony, you don't have to refer to yourself as a wife or a husband if you don't want, you don't have to promise to "honour and obey" - you can even write your own vows now )Mr Rubik and I did - and we played Pink Floyd at our ceremony!). Marriage is already under siege, this is it's death knell.

Mojisola

Rubik wrote: »

you can even write your own vows now

In a Register Office wedding, you don't need to make any vows at all.

Rubik

Mojisola wrote: »

In a Register Office wedding, you don't need to make any vows at all.

True, but it's still important to many couples to make promises or declarations to each other during the ceremony.

lika_86

As a recently engaged legal professional, feminist and atheist, I'm seriously considering it.