United Kingdom to recognize gay relationships

[davidinalameda]

http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?ID=10608&sd=11/26/03

Gay and lesbian couples in the United Kingdom will soon be able to join in civil partnerships, giving them the same tax and inheritance rights as married couples. Announced in the queen's speech on Wednesday, the Civil Partnership Bill will give legal recognition to gay couples for the first time, the BBC reports. The announcement marks the end of a long campaign for equality for same sex partners. But the bill has already faced criticism for failing to offer similar rights to unmarried heterosexual couples.

[La_Serpiente]

1. hmmmmm

But the bill has already faced criticism for failing to offer similar rights to unmarried heterosexual couples.

Sounds like good ole fasion american wedge issue

[Lorien]

4. Kinda silly, isn't it?

since hetero couples have the option of getting married in the first place.

[Paschall]

8. The French domestic partnership law passed in 1999...

...is open to heterosexual couples. It's an alternative to marriage for them, but it still doesn't offer all the advantages of marriage.

We're working on getting that harmonized though, and may be able to twist Chirac's arm in the next couple years. Or--better--amend the law when he's defeated by a Socialist in the 2007 election.

[Demonaut]

2. Don't HoneyMoon In the US

Unless you get separate beds.

[DieboldMustDie]

3. Did Prince Charles have anything to do with this?

:+

[jayfish]

5. While We Wallow In Our Own,...

reactionary, vat of intolerance, the rest of the world passes us by.

Jay

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

6. I think everybody should have to suffer like I did!

I got married and it turned a lover into some kind of creature from hell!

Why anyone would want that, I don't know.

(removing tongue from cheek).

Good for the UK!

[msmcghee]

7. A morose guy on a bar stool once told me . .

. . Why get married? Just find a woman who hates your guts and buy her a house.

True story.