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It's perfectly fair, in that you deliberately choose not to get married and enjoy the protection that marriage brings.
A civil marriage is not very different from a Civil Partnership, and it is quite right and proper that straight people cannot form a Civil Partnership. If you choose not to get married then that is a choice for you and your partner, safe in the knowledge that you won't get the legal rights that come with the legal responsibility.
You do not get rights without responsibility. And that's how it should be.
The average length of a co-habiting relationship is about two and a half years. In comparison, the average length of a divored marriage is eleven and a half years. I'd suggest that means that co-habiting couples aren't as responsible.
If you choose not to get married then fair enough, but you either get married or you live together knowing that you have no protection if the worst happens. The problem is that people don't know that they have no legal protection if the worst happens.
I agree that many people aren't aware of their legal situation and find out the hard way when their partner dies. Then again, if you spend 30 years as a devoted, caring, full live-in partner of somebody, you would well damn expect some recognition from the State regardless of whether you signed some papers in a registry office or not. The situation is still unfair.
If CPs and marriage is about the same, then I don't really see the problem, it's just arguing semantics. TBH, I don't know too much about the CPs, if you split, do you have to go through what is effectively a divorce? Do you have the same liabilities as in a divorce?
"Common Law" couples should have protection, I quite agree, but they should not have the same perks as married people because they are not married.
Mind you, I won't need no proof or receipts to tell which CDs and movies belong to her...
And they wonder why nobody goes to Church anymore...
i know plenty of lesbians who do too, and guys who copy david beckhams haircuts - it called 'trends'
I thought trends come and go - I've seen a lot of lesbians with that style for years and years....
In fact you never seem to see many (any?) lesbians with long, flowing hair do you?
You never see My Sacrifice making intelligent comments do you? Why is that?
People may not agree with the partnerships but they don't need to be so nasty.
Another pointless comment from the cock.....
Whatever. All I ever see you do is make snide comments. How Christian of you.
"Pot", "kettle", "black"?
How ignorant of you. You know nothing of my beliefs.
And neither are you.
OK we've established I'm a wanker and you're a cock.
Shall we move on now?
Neither have I.
Neither am I - it's an observation.
Your misconceptions and inaccuracies make you ignorant and a cock.
Yeah you have. I'll add liar to the list
Oh look, another lie
I'm not the hypocrite, homophobe and liar.
Calm down for fucks sake man, it's nearly christmas and you've got hold of the wrong end of the stick to boot.
If you want someone to rave at, pm me, I always love your insane ramblings.
Yes, good news, if you're wanting to live in a nuclear warzone that is.
The final nail firmly drilled in to Britain's coffin.
Oh, and:
Sollog Quatrains - Verse 0135
In the mirror I see the last day of May
He shall kill many who are Gay
Their sin is grave, so he shall slay
What God calls abomination shall soon have to pay
Nukes instead of confetti?
Why is this a nail in Britain's coffin? Surely being stuck in the past adds nails to the coffin, not advancement (apart from age, of course).
So people of the same sex can get "married" who cares its not hurting anyone. At least they are spending their pink pound to boost the economy i mean think off all those extra wedding preparations such as cost of flowers, caterers, chauffers, dresses/suits, venues, restaurants etc etc. All that extra money coming in
The 20th century will go down in history as the era that mankind gave themselves the "right" to disobey the Almighty God.
The 21st century will go down in history as the era mankind was punished for their betrayal.
What you see today is not 'advancement' or 'modernisation'. It is decline. The decline began in 1945 when the Americans destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nukes.
What happened to the empires of Greece and Rome that were famous in history for their homosexuality? They were DESTROYED.
What happened to them is what is happening to your nations now.
The end is near......
My sacrifice is being a homophobic wanker, but what's new eh? He doesn't like women, and he doesn't like gays, so heaven help a gay woman.
I think the best part of civil partnerships is that the same sex couples have all the rights of a 'heterosexual' couple (put in quotation marks because one of both members could be bisexual hehe), including being allowed to be next of kin, pension rights ect.
Just because it's a same sex couple doesn't mean it will go wrong.