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To: epicure who wrote (1058)8/20/2006 2:51:09 PM
From: maceng2Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1695
 
I thought gays were allowed to marry now? They are in the UK.

From 21 December 2005 the Civil Partnership Act 2004 allows couples to register their relationships through register offices, and to enjoy almost all of the legal rights previously only available to married couples.

london.gov.uk

but to offer legal recognition status to...

"to offer friends and colleagues everywhere a new vision for securing governmental and private institutional recognition of diverse kinds of partnerships, households, kinship relationships and families."

and push full page ads in a prominent newspaper is a bit much.

Hey, I grew up in the sixties and seventies and hippy communes were hip. Nobody expected legal status to recognise the various relationships though.

Marriage as an institution is in enough trouble as it is. I really don't think a high divorce rate is good for anyone.

What the ad proposed is way beyond reasonable to expect imho.



To: epicure who wrote (1058)8/20/2006 6:54:21 PM
From: KonKiloRead Replies (1) | Respond to of 1695
 
So what's the backlash a backlash against?

"Those <blanks> are ruining America!"

Over the years, the blanks would include:

Irish
Chinese
"coloreds"
Mexicans
etc
etc
etc

Now its gays...soon enough the knuckle-draggers will die out and no one will think a thing of giving gays basic human rights...it'll be on the next Others.