Heterosexual UK Couple Denied Civil Union

[rikoshi]

Heterosexual UK Couple Denied Civil Union

I have to give these two respect for taking a stand of not wanting to get married due to anti-gay discrimination.

It might only be a small thing, but I hope the ridiculousness of the whole setup of religious vs. secular marriage becomes a bit more apparent to at least a few more people over this.

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[megadog]

Must confess, this just goes to reinforce my dislike of the whole 'gay marriage' thing.

IMHO all partnerships (irrespective of the genders of the participants) should be a purely-business, legal-contractual thing: you deal with inheritance, power-of-attorney and such by spending half an hour at the office of a good contracts-lawyer who sorts out the paperwork. No ceremony, well, no more than when you rent/buy a house, get a driver's licence or incorporate your first business. It's just paperwork, after all. Who celebrates filing their taxes?

Sure, if you want a public ceremony, flamboyant-and-unnecessary 'wedding' or suchlike - find a church, hotel, temple, forest-grove or other such venue for this - but it should be a wholly-optional matter.

[rikoshi]

I think that society just needs to accept that "religious marriage" and "legal marriage" need to be two different things.

Your religion doesn't permit gay marriage? Good for you. Let your religion decide that. But that shouldn't keep the law from recognizing marriages from religions that do allow gay marriage, or from nonreligious gay marriage.

[anonymous]

I agree with Rikoshi. I cannot speak of other countries but in the United States, Congress needs to STOP letting the church dictate government policy. Separation of Church and State is written into the Constitution of the United States of America. The government and citizens of this nation are quick to bring up Separation of Church and State when it is convenient for them such as school and public prayer. Yet when it comes to the subject of same sex marriages the 1st thing many of them say is that it should be against the law because it’s against God and a sin because the Holy Bible said so. I am Methodist and gay and, don’t believe that God loves me any less or that I am going to Hell just because I am gay. I view the Bible is mostly myth written by man mostly for moral guidelines with some truth written in it. To get back to my point when Congress lets their religious views and the churches dictate policy on same sex marriages that is a violation of this nations Constitutions and the primary principals that our nation was founded on