It is not just *any* gay or lesbian couples who will 'get rights', but only those who choose to make a public, recorded, validated and certified registration of that coupledom.
For stright people, this opportunity is termed 'marriage' whether religeous-in-church or civil-in-registry-office (and for some they need both where their particular religion is not authorised).
For Gay and Lesbian people this opportunity will only be termed 'registered partnership', but everything else will be just about the same (oh, except civil option only)
The discrimination is not against straight couples who *choose* not to 'marry', but against gay and lesbian couples having to make do with the second-rate term 'partnership', as though it is aloo some sort of business transaction and love has nothing to do with it.
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Date: 2004-03-31 03:09 am (UTC)For stright people, this opportunity is termed 'marriage' whether religeous-in-church or civil-in-registry-office (and for some they need both where their particular religion is not authorised).
For Gay and Lesbian people this opportunity will only be termed 'registered partnership', but everything else will be just about the same (oh, except civil option only)
The discrimination is not against straight couples who *choose* not to 'marry', but against gay and lesbian couples having to make do with the second-rate term 'partnership', as though it is aloo some sort of business transaction and love has nothing to do with it.