Civil Partnership - Gui for Gay and Lbian Coupl the UK

Contents:

• GAY MARRIAGE V CIVIL PARTNERSHIP: WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?
• GAY CIVIL PARTNERSHIP COMMITMENTS OR UNIONS
• WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS
• TURKEY: PORTUGUE TOURIST SAYS HE WAS JAILED FOR LOOKG GAY
• TURKEY: PORTUGUE TOURIST SAYS HE WAS JAILED FOR LOOKG GAY

GAY MARRIAGE V CIVIL PARTNERSHIP: WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?

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GAY CIVIL PARTNERSHIP COMMITMENTS OR UNIONS

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WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS

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. Whatever your views on the issue, the argument that gay and lbians should be allowed to marry is straightforward enough to follow.

TURKEY: PORTUGUE TOURIST SAYS HE WAS JAILED FOR LOOKG GAY

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.

"This isn't a gay rights mpaign - 's about equaly for everyone. "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.

TURKEY: PORTUGUE TOURIST SAYS HE WAS JAILED FOR LOOKG GAY

Likewise, he says gay upl should embrace the opportuny to fe civil partnerships on their own terms. GAY Civil Partnership COMMITMENTS OR UNIONS.