So Why Shouldnt Heterosexual Couples Be Allow A Civil Partnership?

[youngmafbog]

Hardly fair is it?

http://news.sky.com/story/heterosexual-couple-lose-civil-partnership-court-of-appeal-battle-10776197

[anotheoldgit]

dave50
/// Attention seeking idiots, just get married for goodness sake! ///

Attention seeking idiots, just choose another B&B and cake baker, for goodness sake!

[jackthehat]

///But no, those particular gays knew exactly what they were doing.///

Still kicking that particular canard about, AOG?

[andy-hughes]

Confronting illegal prejudice is the aim - media attention is a by-product.

Let's remember that these actions were taken to highlight wrongdoing, and media attention is a great way to do that - but to infer that media attention was the driving force is deliberately to miss the point.

[Togo]

Perhaps the "gay community" object to civil partnerships for hetro couples because, as it stands it makes them feel in some way "special", or grants them an exclusive niche. You know all the people who crave acceptance, and understanding, but think the same sort of treatment for the majority somehow undermines their self worth. Why should say atheist male/ female couples have to go through with the charade of marriages in the eyes of God, when "Christian" same sex couples are spared the imposition?

[jackthehat]

///Perhaps the "gay community" object to civil partnerships for hetro couples because, as it stands it makes them feel in some way "special", or grants them an exclusive niche. You know all the people who crave acceptance, and understanding, but think the same sort of treatment for the majority somehow undermines their self worth.///

Perhaps that is a load of cobblers....

[andy-hughes]

Togo - spoken like a true 'man' - i.e. one who regards homosexuals as a separate species to be feared, avoided, and kept in their place.

[Mothman]

//Perhaps the "gay community" object to civil partnerships for hetro couples because, as it stands it makes them feel in some way "special", or grants them an exclusive niche.//
Or maybe they don't give a toss either way, the article spectacularly fails to make any mention of how gay couples feel so I guess this is just an opportunity to air some grievance on your part?

[Togo]

Just a wry observation that the people who seem to be objecting to hetro couples being allowed the right to civil partnerships appear to be the "ones" who already have such a right. Remember one man's cynic is another man's realist.

[jackthehat]

Really?
I haven't noticed many people, at all, against heterosexual couples being given the opportunity to enter a CP.

So, rather than being anything like a wry observation, it seems more like nudgescuffling...

[Togo]

Certainly touched a "nerve" though didn't it . Haha.

// Mark Vernon is himself in a civil partnership, and the author of The Meaning of Friendship, argues that heterosexual couples, whether they like it or not, cannot escape the gender roles framed by centuries of marriage. Likewise, he says gay couples should embrace the opportunity to define civil partnerships on their own terms.//

Note that last line that contains the words "on their own terms". So a leading light in the "gay" literary world thinks that civil partnerships should be the sole right of his contemporaries. Not for heterosexual couples who carry "baggage" that is not evident in gay couples. If I had said that they would be howling at the moon for blood.

[jackthehat]

//Certainly touched a "nerve" though didn't it . Haha. //

No. Hoho.

One gay dissenter does not a 'protest-group' make....

[andy-hughes]

Togo - picking one isoltated sentence by one individual and using it to float a view that an entire section of society embrace and echo the sentiment expressed is cherry-picking at it's most blatant.

It may bolster your view ion your mind - and heaven knows it needs all the bolstering it can get - but the majority of others would reject it as a carelessly worded opinion, rather than a set-in-stone fact.

[Togo]

//and heaven knows it needs all the bolstering it can get//

Why would you allude to my psyche being in some way "fragile". Are you an expert in such disorders? Unless, you were clumsily trying to assert that there is no support for same sex civil partnerships.

[Mamyalynne]

This thread whilst in no way representative of the nation as a whole seems to say that as long as CPs exist they should be open to all.


I can't see anyone coming up with a convincing reason to think otherwise.

[andy-hughes]

Togo - the 'bolstering' refers to your view, not your mind.

Please try and read what I write.

[SnookerPlayer]

I want to marry a horse, stallion or mare doesn't matter.

[jackthehat]

Why would you want to do that, SnookerPlayer?

[SnookerPlayer]

Love.

[Mamyalynne]

Start a petition , I'll sign it.

[jno]

because bestiality is but a whisker away from gayness, jack. Everyone knows that.