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[ramtops]

it's very good to see gay couples getting the same rights as heterosexual married couples (see Guardian link).

but where are the rights for straight, unmarried couples. I have many friends living in long term unmarried relationships, and this is discrimination, pure and simple.

what's the justification? The "sanctity of marriage"?

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[vampwillow]

a major part of the problem is that word 'Marry/iage'. It is almost as if it is imbued with a special meaning other than 'partnership recorded officially'. Of course, for some people who come from the religeous side of it, it is.

But it shouldn't be.

I would be happy (as written in my own LJ) for *all* couples to have to have a civil resistration and then choose *optionally* to do the religious bit ...

[ramtops.livejournal.com]

a major part of the problem is that word 'Marry/iage'

indeed.