Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
A heterosexual couple who is simply cohabiting, frex, can break up and go
their separate ways at any time, whereas if they are legally married, they
must go through the often messy process of obtaining a legal divorce,
dividing up the property, etc. OTOH, because
On 30 Jun 2003 at 11:55, William T Goodall wrote:
The moves will give next-of-kin rights in hospitals
That alone leads me to back it. The current situation is farsical,
and very nearly got a friend of mine killed (let's just say that her
parents were NOT her legal next-of-kin)
Andy
Dawn
However, the changes have been criticised by human rights campaigners
who complain that heterosexual non-married couples are discriminated
against.
Heterosexual couples will not be eligible for the registration scheme,
a decision attacked by veteran gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell.
Mr
At 10:24 AM 6/30/03 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
However, the changes have been criticised by human rights campaigners
who complain that heterosexual non-married couples are discriminated
against.
Heterosexual couples will not be eligible for the registration scheme,
a decision attacked by
To modify an old saying:
Why buy the cow if you can get the government to give you the milk for free?
I'm afraid I don't see your point. The complaint is that the UK government will,
rather than permit actual legal same-sex marriage, permit gay couples certain
privileges similar to marriage
But of course the BBC managed to find a straight couple to illustrate
the issue: they have a child and live together and think the new law is
a good thing; but they would like to be able to take advantage of it
themselves since they don't want to get married.
Why should straight people be
At 01:58 PM 6/30/03 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To modify an old saying: Why buy the cow if you can get the
government to give you the milk for free? I'm afraid I don't see your
point. The complaint is that the UK government will, rather than permit
actual legal same-sex marriage, permit
On Monday, June 30, 2003, at 06:58 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To modify an old saying:
Why buy the cow if you can get the government to give you the milk for
free?
I'm afraid I don't see your point. The complaint is that the UK
government will, rather than permit actual legal same-sex
