Home Office public consultation on gay marriage

[athenegenia]

The UK Home Office has opened a public consultation on gay marriage and changing gender in marriage. Let them know what you think here!

What do people think? So far the only thing that I really take issue with is that it is only sticking with "voluntary basis for faith groups and with no religious content" with regards to faith-based marriages. This

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[thekremlin]

Not impressed either, but I'll take incremental progress over no progress.

[bouteillebleu]

Thanks for the link - gave them my thoughts (most of which were "it is *fucking shocking* what is involved if a trans person who's currently married / in a civil partnership wants to legally transition, what made you think that not being able to interconvert them and instead having to dissolve your marriage/civil partnership and start another was a good idea").

I read the faith-based stuff as being stronger than that - not only could you not have a religious same-sex marriage if the religious organisation objected, but you couldn't have one full stop even if they didn't object - and you also couldn't have a same-sex civil marriage on religious premises (whereas you can currently have a civil partnership ceremony on religious premises if the ceremony is non-religious). Likewise not impressed with it, and the question asking about it was so badly worded that I couldn't figure out if "Agree" or "Disagree" was the right answer to say that I didn't like their approach.

[trisshawkeye]

I'm annoyed that they're not opening up religious same-sex marriages as an option. Hey, if I decide to marry a girl one day, I'd want a religious wedding, and there are plenty of other religious gay couples, and gay-affirming churches/other religious communities that it's rather ridiculous to remove that scenario entirely. You could just make it optional for religious organisations.

But hey, baby steps. We're moving in the right direction...