Civil Partnership - Gui for Gay and Lbian Coupl the UK

Contents:

• POPE FRANCIS SAYS GAY UPL HAVE THE RIGHT TO CIVIL UNN
• WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNN?
• UK PRIME MISTER PLEDG TO FORCE GAY CIVIL UNN REGNN EASTERN EUROPE
• MILAN: CATHOLIC CHURCH POLYGAMY WARNG OVER GAY CIVIL UNN REGISTER

POPE FRANCIS SAYS GAY UPL HAVE THE RIGHT TO CIVIL UNN

So on Tuday 9 November, they will head to their lol town hall Islgton, north London, and file a civil partnership is part of a legal bid spearhead by the activist Peter Tatchell lled the Equal Love mpaign, which aims to redrs the imbalance between heterosexual and homosexual partnership rights. Civil partnerships, which me to force 2005, mostly give same-sex upl the same legal rights as married upl, but some mpaigners believe the arrangement lacks the stat enjoyed by is a viewpot that has gaed cross-party backg, havg bee official Liberal Democrat party policy and received the backg of Labour lear Ed Miliband and Conservative Mayor of London Boris why would a straight uple mand the right to be joed a civil partnership that so many the gay rights lobby believe is aquate? Both Tom and Kathere expla that their primary reason for not gettg married is that they do not want to be part of an stutn om which gay and lbian people are they say that, even were the law to change to allow same-sex marriage, they would still choose to have nothg to do wh many young women dream of the day they walk down the aisle as a bri, Kathere, a postgraduate stunt, is not one of them.

"If the mpaign sounds novel to Brish ears, would be nsired retrogra France, where the equivalent of civil partnerships have been available to gay and straight upl alike sce 2009, some 95% of those takg up the pacte civil solidare (Pacs) were heterosexual.

It is a statistic that Equal Love supporters would e to assert that many heterosexuals want the legal secury of a civic unn whout the historil and cultural baggage of by the same token, advot of tradnal fay valu uld e the same figur as proof that straight civil partnerships unrme married life as an all opposn to Tatchell's mpaign om such quarters, and philosopher Mark Vernon is himself a civil partnership, but believ that is rrect that the law regnis the differenc between gay and straight thor of The Meang of Friendship, he argu that heterosexual upl, whether they like or not, nnot pe the genr rol amed by centuri of marriage.

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNN?

Although a civil partnership is sentially viewed as a “gay marriage”, between same sex partners, the reason is not lled a “gay marriage”, is that there are a few differenc between a partnership and a marriage on a technil level.

Lawmakers voted 193 favor vers 56 agast the long-awaed reform, followg a heated 10-hour bate which supporters of the bill — some wearg rabow gay pri badg — trad barbs wh opponents. Activists say regnn of same-sex civil partnerships is an important step towards gag greater acceptance a untry where the Orthodox Church still holds sway and where reports of homophobic vlence have creased recent years.

Prsure for change creased after the European Court of Human Rights led two years ago that was discrimatory for the untry to exclu gay upl om existg legislatn givg tax, pensn and herance rights to unmarried heterosexuals. Bishop Seraphim of Piras lled homosexualy “unnatural lewdns” while the ntroversial Bishop Amvross of Kalavryta orred church his dce to sound funeral bells “ mourng” over the bill’s expected passage. LONDON, December 18, 2009 () – Brish Prime Mister Gordon Brown has pledged to attempt to force Eastern European untri to accept as legally valid homosexual civil partnerships ntracted Bra.

UK PRIME MISTER PLEDG TO FORCE GAY CIVIL UNN REGNN EASTERN EUROPE

The Labour ernment's mment to the homosexualist polil agenda has been pecially succsful schools where “sex tn” has been ma mandatory throughout all gras and opposn to homosexualy has been supprsed unr the guise of batg “homophobic bullyg.

Homosexualist activists have ma no secret of their tentn to e var European Unn bodi to force untri like Lhuania and Poland to accept homosexualy as a valid “sexual alternative.

PM Gordon Brown Promis Gays “Crack-Down” on “Homophobia”UK Mister Pledg Government Collaboratn wh Gay Activists Stoppg “Homophobic Bullyg” SchoolsCouncil of Europe Rolv to Step Up Pro-Homosexual Prsure. This has created a gap between what the majory believe and the official posn of the Church of England on homosexualy, makg the Church appear homophobic the ey of many, pecially the young.

MILAN: CATHOLIC CHURCH POLYGAMY WARNG OVER GAY CIVIL UNN REGISTER

and the Hoe of Bishops recently exprsed s sire to tablish ‘across the Church of England a h tone and culture of wele and support for lbian and gay people, for those who experience same sex attractn, and for their fai’. Marriage equaly has bee a potent symbol of the shift towards a non-homophobic culture much of the Wt and the Church of England’s abily to claim that symbol mak s nmnatn of homophobia look weak, if not hypocril, the ey of many. This suatn has been explaed by a batn of factors, notably the nservative doctral stcts of a majory of bishops and their ncern about what a more liberal attu to homosexualy would mean for the Mother-Church of the Anglin Communn, given the opposn of the ‘Global South’ to gay rights.

In this paper, however, I would like to foc on the lurgil factor as an addnal explanatn for the current Church of England difficulti g to terms wh the creasg support for the full cln of gays and lbians the Church the age of marriage equaly.