Many of us in the USA are a little foggy on marriage equality issues in the UK. Since the UK has allowed open homosexuals in it's miliary since around 2000 we seem to think they must really be progressive.
But that is not the case at all. In the UK they have civil-partnerships for members of our LGBTQI community. However, those civil-partnerships are also available for heterosexuals.
In fact, it wasn't so long ago an article was published stating many UK heterosexuals felt civil-partnerships was a good start; a pre-marriage test. In other words, they feel civil-partnerships is less than marriage.
The simply fact that civil-partnerships are available to both homosexuals and heterosexuals, while marriage is still exclusively for heterosexuals seems to support that.
Add to that the fact the UK has a ban on same-sex marriage and you start to see civil-partnerships in a different light.
Our friend in the UK, Peter Tatchel, tells me there is a legal effort in progress to change the marriage equality issues in the UK.
For more information about that click here
Thank you Peter for keeping us informed.
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