Does the California gay marriage ruling mean it’s time to reconsider ‘civil partnership’ terminology in the UK?
“Limiting the designation of marriage to a union ‘between a man and a woman’ is unconstitutional and must be stricken from the statute,” said California Chief Justice Ron George in his written opinion yesterday, as California’s top court ruled a state law banning marriage between same-sex couples as unconstitutional.
The state’s Supreme Court said the “right to form a family relationship” applied to all Californians regardless of sexuality. Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger previously vetoed laws passed by the state legislature to legalise gay marriage not once, but twice.
tags: ceremony, civil partnerships, comprehension, equality, gay marriage, inequality, love, marriage, parenting, partnerships, perception, rights, ritual, society, surrogacyThe war for justice and equality goes on
Many people of different sexualities have been led to believe for some time under the current government that we have achieved gay equality. We haven’t. Not only do gay men and women still run the risk of verbal and physical abuse on the street and in their families and neighbourhoods, but they are unable to simply hold hands when in public unless they are either in the back arse of beyond or happen to be walking down Compton Street in London’s Soho, where there is safety in numbers.
tags: adoption, animal rights, Barack Obama, bigotry, blood, blood donors, democracy, disabled, disadvantage, discrimination, dysfunction, environmental activism, equality, gay, heterosexuals, Hillary Clinton, homophobia, homosexuals, justice, laws, legislation, lesbians, lies, manifesto, money, old, organ donors, politics, poor, powerful, prejudice, racism, rich, self-belief, sheep, sick, society, surrogacy, truth, unemployed, vegetarianism
