So, yesterday the UK’s Supreme Court ruled that allowing only same-sex couples to have a civil partnership was discriminatory. See, for example, the BBC News report.
Well what a surprise! Surely this was so easily foreseeable by even the most intellectually challenged politician.
So on top of everything else they have to worry about, the government now have to do something – although they will naturally drag their heels as long as they can, and probably until someone takes then to court again because they’ve done nothing. They have a track record, after all.
But really, where is the problem? Isn’t the answer so very simple?
- Every couple, whether same-sex or mixed-sex, should be entitled to a civil ceremony. I don’t care what you call it: civil partnership or marriage they are essentially identical. This should be the default arrangement which grants partnership rights as “marriage” (in it’s multifarious forms) does now. And it should be a purely civil occasion, like current “registry office” weddings.
- If the couple desire a religious element to their conjunction, then they can have whatever church, temple, synagogue, mosque they choose (and which will play along) give them a separate religious ceremony. Just as some couples now have a civil wedding and a blessing in church.
Just what were the politicians thinking of in making the current mess in the first place?
Gawdelpus!