Civil partnership for Heterosexual Couples
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Civil partnership for Heterosexual Couples.
Evolution rather than revolution.
In law things take time, too long for some but it does tend to get there in the end, in most cases it takes people to stand up and challenge the law, Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan are a couple that decided to stand up to the law and won, they had an objection to marriage but wanted to cement their relationship to each other. Since 2005 gay couples have been able to apply for a civil partnership, which was not the case for heterosexual couples, and therefore discriminatory.
Common-law husband and wife are not recognised by law in the same way as a married couple.
Over the years the legal views on marriage have been entwined with the church but times are changing and a much more relaxed logical approach to the law is being applied, where discrimination is a more important factor than following religious beliefs.
This change in the Law is significant, with over 3 million couples cohabiting in the UK and a quarter of babies being born to unmarried parents an alternative, many of whom believe they have the same rights or are completely unaware that they are not being treated the same way as a married couple.
Living together and not being married a couple could miss out on benefits from pension schemes, inheritance tax and a number of others, and it’s normally the woman that misses out.
So heterosexual couples cannot enter into civil partnerships and it’s another example of people power, but the government did realise it was discriminating back in 2005 when it introduced civil partnerships for gay couples, so why did it not act then? Well it did it, assessed the situation and decided to take no action because it did not know what to do, in fact, the only objections at the time were from the Church, perhaps we have not evolved as much as we should and it has taken 13 years for the Supreme Court to decide on the change instigated by a couple with a fundamental objection to the obvious discrimination, I would like to know the time and cost incurred for them to push this change through, but well done.
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