[Grotbags]

Originally Posted by Zee

Do we have to get into the semantics of the names? Heterosexual couples can get married at the registry office, sans religious contexts. It's a civil partnership, seeing as it's done through a civil registry office. My parents were united at a civil ceremony.

It's silly to fight for this right in my humble opinion, because it's an issue that extends way beyond the right to get married - and, in my view, it's not something worth fighting for when we're already at a place where homosexual couples are given all the same rights through this method of uniting two people.

But it is not a civil ceremony, it is a civil marriage, which is what I was talking about in my first post in this thread.

It really is pointless arguing about it anyway as whether you (not you personally, the 'royal' you) like it or not, same-sex/equal marriage will happen.

To just touch upon the religious aspect though, I think Betty Bowers said it best so I'll just post her video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFkeKKszXTw

And also this -