Are You Woke?

[Stargazer]

The latest is that heterosexual couples have been granted their wish to be like same sex couples in being able to have a civil partnership. What is the problem with marriage which does not have to be a religious ceremony, can be Registry Office. So the binding commitment to one another is what counts. Choose your partner on Sale or Return possibly?

[JimF]

Am I woke?

[Mamyalynne]

I'm half asleep.

[bookbinder]

If a couple want to go for a civil partnership, then good luck to them. Each to his own, I say. It's just a sign of the changing times.

[shoota]

I don't think I am for I know not what the question is...?

[Jordyboy9]

Woke alerting racial injustice

[Khandro]

//........can be Registry Office.//

It's actually a 'register office'. :0)

[bookbinder]

'Woke' means, nowadays, being 'with it; alert to what's going on.'

[Mamyalynne]

Stargazer, choose the one you wish - no one has removed the right to choose from you.

[JimF]

Does it? Well, stap me vitals!

[Mamyalynne]

Not in public Jim , please.

[ichkeria]

Chewbacca was a Wookiee.
Do I win £5?
I have absolutely no idea what the question actually is otherwise.

[New Judge]

I don't understand why Civil Partnerships are required any longer. The chronology:

1. Same sex couples could not marry.
2. Civil Partnerships were introduced to allow them to recognise their partnership.
3. Same-sex marriage was made possible.

Er.... that should be it. There is no necessity for two different types of partnership to be available for either same-sex couples or mixed-sex couples. As far as I am aware the differences between the two are minimal:

- A marriage certificate requires just the names of both partners’ fathers, while a civil partnership certificate requires the names of both parents.

- Civil partners cannot call themselves ‘married’ for legal purposes.

- A marriage is ended with divorce by obtaining a decree absolute, while a civil partnership is ended with dissolution by obtaining a dissolution order.

Adultery is not a valid reason to dissolve a civil partnership, but it can be used to divorce.

So no great shakes with any of that that could not be ironed out with a few adjustments to the legislation. Quite why the couple who campaigned for about five years to allow mixed-sex Civil Partnerships makes me question their reasoning.

[sevenOP]

The cost between Civil Partnership and Register Office seems to vary by location but a Civil Partnership may be cheaper.

https://www.hitched.co.uk/wedding-planning/ceremony-and-
reception/registry-office-wedding/

https://www.cumbria.gov.uk/registrationservice/cp/costs.asp

[jackthehat]

When Same-sex marriage became permissible under the Law Civil Partnerships should have been scrubbed from the Statute Books; to take effect from the same date.
Those who had already entered into a CP and wanted to 'upgrade' ought to have been allowed to do so with the monies paid for the CP taken into consideration; those in a CP who wanted to preserve the status quo should have been allowed to do so.
And then 'marriage for all' or cohabiting outside of marriage ought to have been the only options.

[woofgang]

woke? I was up till 2am last night on account of fireworks and then up again at 8.30 because of neighbours slamming garage doors. I am berelay conscious let alone woke....more seriously I don't care what others want to do if it doesn't affect me.

[Peter Pedant]

// I don't think I am for I know not what the question is...?// shoo'a

you know shotgun weddings. shoota? well you can do shotgun civil partnerships now too

[Peter Pedant]

NJ - you have omitted that non consummation cannot be used as a frounds for annulment in a CP

[New Judge]

Thank you Peter. Add that to my list of easy to solve problems to be solved before ditching CPs.

[sevenOP]

I see the thought police are here again:

"When Same-sex marriage became permissible under the Law Civil Partnerships should have been scrubbed from the Statute Books; to take effect from the same date. "

- Why?

'upgrade' ? what if you wanted to 'downsize' ?

[ladybirder]

Khandro @ 18.00 - not in Brighton & Hove it isn't.
https://maps.apple.com/place?%20Hove%20Registry%20Office=&address=Bartholomew%20Square%2C%20Brighton%2C%20BN1%201JA%2C%20England&auid=2003242354534236736&ll=50.820742461317145%2C-0.1403691961458594&q=Brighton%20