Marriage and family: civil partnerships
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The Civil Partnership Act 2004 created a scheme for the legal recognition of homosexual relationships. The Act applies to England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
‘Civil partnerships’ are ‘gay marriage’ in all but name, extending all the legal rights and privileges of marriage to homosexual couples.1 The formal requirements precisely mirror civil weddings.
‘Civil partnerships’ thus equate holy matrimony with homosexual liaisons. Marriage is not morally equivalent to such lifest...
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