Posted on 02/22/2005 12:03:05 AM PST by JohnHuang2
From combined dispatches LONDON -- Same-sex partners in Britain will be able to enter into civil unions beginning in December, joining homosexuals in parts of Europe and the United States in obtaining many of the rights enjoyed by married couples, the government said yesterday. The Civil Partnerships Bill passed by Parliament last year gives same-sex couples the right to form legally binding partnerships and entitles them to some of the same tax and pension rights that married couples have. Starting Dec. 5, couples will be able to notify the register office at their local council that they intend to form civil partnerships. After a 15-day waiting period, they will sign an official partnership document in front of witnesses.
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Jesus said: "And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore, they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder." -from THE BIBLE: Matthew 19:4-6
Well, a civil union is ok, but not a marriage.
Yah. That's what I'm wondering. In what way is this 'civil union' different from 'same sex marriage' or traditional (real) (NORMAL) marriage?
Different words -- same thing.
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Genesis 19:1-13; Judges 19; Levit. 18:22; 20:13; Romans 1:18-32; 1 Cor. 6:9-10, 1 Timothy 1:8-11
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