Comments on: When my parents were young it was illegal to be gay http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-2393.html/ PinkNews.co.uk Gay News (UK and world) from Pink News - all the gay news for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered community in the UK and beyond- thegaynews from Pink News Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:00:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Robert W. Pierce http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-2393.html/comment-page-1/#comment-6851 Robert W. Pierce Wed, 20 Sep 2006 18:09:00 +0000 http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-2393.html#comment-6851 Though Civil Partnerships offer many of the rights of traditional marriage, these partnerships are by definition NOT marriages. If that were the case, marriage would be and should be available to every citizen. So in essence, there is no equality for all in the UK. I don't understand why CPs are often referred to as marriages when the Blair Goverment have emphatically stated that they are not. Why isn't anyone pushing for CPs to be merged into the Marriage Causes Act and do what the true democracies of the world have done such as Belgium, Canada, Holland, Spain and soon S. Africa, opening marriage to all of their citizens. That's true democracy for you. Though Civil Partnerships offer many of the rights of traditional marriage, these partnerships are by definition NOT marriages. If that were the case, marriage would be and should be available to every citizen. So in essence, there is no equality for all in the UK. I don't understand why CPs are often referred to as marriages when the Blair Goverment have emphatically stated that they are not. Why isn't anyone pushing for CPs to be merged into the Marriage Causes Act and do what the true democracies of the world have done such as Belgium, Canada, Holland, Spain and soon S. Africa, opening marriage to all of their citizens. That's true democracy for you.

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