• UK: Civil Partnerships to now include Heterosexual relationships
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45714032
Tired: Legalising gay marriage Wired: Legalising straight non-marriage
now are these like the US where civil partnerships were unfairly unequal to marriage because of arbitrary christian conservatives demanding it be that way or are they just marriages without the word marriage attached to it?
This is one of those weird situations where it totally makes sense to me and I wholeheartedly approve, but I still find it absolutely hilarious for some reason.
Oh sweet, I was gonna get a civil partnership with a mate so we could get a non-HMO but now I can do it with my gf instead
#LoveWins
Good, now just abolish marriage.
Honestly, this has been my opinion for a long time. I've felt that the religious assholes have had a point, solely because of how closely tied marriage has been to religion. The vestigial religious aspect should be entirely cut out by replacing marriage with a non-religious equivalent.
I mean, non-religious marriages are a thing. You can get married by a registrar rather than a priest or minister/other ordained cleric in most places. I'm all for people being able to choose a civil partnership though.
I've been working on figuring out if this is a thing in America or not. Currently I get taxed on the value of my girlfriend's health insurance; I have her listed as a dependent and domestic partner on my insurance, but afaik the IRS doesn't give a shit. I was hoping I could write off the cost of that, but the IRS simply considers it to be income and I get taxed on it
In that case, what's the actual difference between marriage and civil partnership?
Dunno, but they exist is my point.
Essentially, there are very few differences from a legal standpoint between marriage and civil partnerships except for the fact that only homosexual couples are able to enter into civil partnerships. There are slight variations in terms of financial rights, for example if on partner dies then the surviving partner may receive a lower pension share than they would had the couple been married. Additionally, when it comes to divorce and annulment of these relationships, the differences are marginal between the two with the main point being that civil partnerships cannot be ended on the grounds of adultery, whereas marriages can.  https://www.howellslegal.co.uk/news/post/Whats-the-Difference-Between-Marriage-and-Civil-Partnership The inequality also meant trans people in civil partnerships had to get them annulled or changed to a marriage to change their legal gender, whereas with marriage it's been possible since equal marriage. Additionally, for some people there's just a symbolic difference between the two - civil partnerships were created as a different institution with largely the same perks and therefore is seen as not being attached to the history, tradition and perceived baggage of marriage.
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