Interesting that they don't pla on introducing same-sex marriage. If this thing is almost identical to marriage, yet isn't marriage whats the point in calling it someting different.
Making the new 'registered partnership' (for want of a better term at present) unavailable to opposide-sex couples who want to register their partnership without the whole marriage thing doesn't do anything to improve its popularity. I know of heterosexual couples who would be against this proposal based on the fact its only available to same-sex couples.
So its marriage but not as far as I can see. What does this do for us in foreign countries with regards to being recognised as a legal partnership? Would the UK gov't be prepared to back a 'registered couple' if they were deemed not to be a 'couple' by another country i.e USA?
Gonna go and read up more about it as I am web-master of my LGB website and this is a useful topic for us to discuss and think about.
Yay for gov't meetingy type things and your input, will go and read up some more before making further comments.
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Making the new 'registered partnership' (for want of a better term at present) unavailable to opposide-sex couples who want to register their partnership without the whole marriage thing doesn't do anything to improve its popularity. I know of heterosexual couples who would be against this proposal based on the fact its only available to same-sex couples.
So its marriage but not as far as I can see. What does this do for us in foreign countries with regards to being recognised as a legal partnership? Would the UK gov't be prepared to back a 'registered couple' if they were deemed not to be a 'couple' by another country i.e USA?
Gonna go and read up more about it as I am web-master of my LGB website and this is a useful topic for us to discuss and think about.
Yay for gov't meetingy type things and your input, will go and read up some more before making further comments.
Natalya