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  by Jean-Paul 3 years ago

  "When others gain a civil right, my rights are not reduced in any way. "Civil rights" are a win/win game — the more won by others, the stronger the army defending my rights becomes."..................Juliam Bond, born 14.01.1940
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  by Harry 3 years ago

  I am pleased to join this group. Like others, I had a civil partnership with my dear partner of 16 years as soon as it was legal. We feel and are "married" - and my friends and colleagues at work all call it that. It is ludicrous that the religious inclined - happily an ever decreasing minority in this country - still try to maintain control over a secular insitutiotn.
  
  And while I have enormous respect and gratitude to Stonewall for all that it has done on CPs, anti bullying etc. I have issues with giving it any more money until it drops its ambivalent stance towards campaigning for marriage equality.
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  by Jean-Paul 3 years ago

  I agree with those who say that everyone have the right to a civil marriage, period.
  
  No church owns "marriage"; "marriage" pre-dates religion.
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  by Burty 3 years ago

  In July 2006 my Partner and I took what was on offer-Civil Partnership. Frankly, we feel married in every way. On paper though it states Registered Civil Partnership. We had our cerimony at Southampton Registras Office and our reception, we held in the former Shipping Lines Dock 4 Restaraunt. This is where the Titanic Passengers had breakfast before boarding Titanic, to their doom in 1500 cases.
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  by bohemicus 4 years ago

  McKellen, who lived with the theatre director Sean Mathias for eight years, is a strong proponent of full and equal gay marriage. “I think there should be full equality, full marriage rather than partnership rights,” wrote McKellen. “It’s only a matter of time, and the Church and whoever objects should just stop worrying about it. It’s not the end of civilisation.”
  
  “Everyone should feel that they have the right and opportunity to live openly,” he concluded. [http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-12939.html]
  
  I think that it's brilliant that Ian McKellen shares our point of view!
  
  Is anyone going/coming to London Gay Pride on July 4th?
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  by Nick 4 years ago

  You are so right galeex. I hear and read so many gay people in the UK blab on about the need for activism after they have seen Milk, and then what follows it is absolutley nothing.
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  by Galeex 4 years ago

  If that is the case then it should be easy to enable same-sex marriage. What annoys me is the fact that many lgbt people in the UK seem to think we have equal rights with civil partnerships, which is not true. Seperate will never be equal. There is no activism anymore just "gay prides" which have become commercialized to an extent that they have lost nearly all political significance. Take america for example lgbt are protesting and campaining alot more than we do here. We need to relight our politcal activism and fight for our rights.
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  by bohemicus 4 years ago

  Hi, all that is needed is to change stipulation in Marriage Act defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman to definition of marriage as a union between two adults. It is called 'opening up of marriage to same-sex couples'.
  
  Some countries, which originally had same-sex registered partnership (Netherlands, Norway) have already opened up their civil marriage to same-sex couples by throwing out the definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman, and replacing it with 'union of two adults'. Many other countries (Sweden, Denmark) are planning to do the same (open up civil marriage to same-sex couples).