Consumation?
Consumation is still necessary to validate a marriage?
Why the hell do we vote these idiots into political office
Consumation hasn’t been an issue since the sixties. The number of marriages in Britain recently annulled because of lack of consumation can be counted on a blind butcher’s hand.
For did not Mary say unto the baby Jesus:
“No homo”?
I fucking hate how tumblr is so America based like are any of you even aware this just happened
wait what
what the fuck
no no no no no
Derps,
The CoE and CoW aren’t the only people who conduct marriages.
The Government will legalise CIVIL gay marriage. It’s just that these two religious groups complained so much that our Government conceded and slapped them when they started saying “Oh but there was support”.
How bizarre.
Gandalf is right*. Although, there will be religious same-sex marriage, it’s just that religions will have to “opt-in”.
The CoE don’t even want to perform same-sex marriages. The “ban” (why ban want won’t happen) is only there to placate conservative opposition. Freedom of religion is an important concept too. If the CoE changes it’s mind, then the law could be changed. Hell, it could be changed without affecting reality at all, but the Tory backbenchers want their guarantee.
It’s one of the weird things that happen when you have a (semi-) state religion.
In any case, any other religious body that wants to perform a same-sex marriage will be able to do so under the governments plans. The ones that don’t won’t have to.
It’s not an ideal situation, but I think it’s one of those awkward compromises that makes democracy work.
To sum up, same-sex couples in England and Wales will be able to marry and, if their religion accepts them, they will be able to be married by that religion. Overall, a happy situation for all concerned.
Here’s a BBC article on the subject.
*I never thought I’d use that sentence in real life.
(Source: pullyourselfoutofit)
If you are married, why did you marry your partner?
It’s not a trick question.
You just know that you are in for a wonderful piece of journalism when the first two paragraphs contain the witty little bon mot:
London is so tolerant it could be twinned with Sodom – or alternatively with our neighbourhood French villages called Orgy and Anus (I’m not joking, they are both next door to us).
So begins this article for the Daily Mail by Alexander Boot.
Earlier today 2500 parishes in England and Wales were read a letter by Archbishops Vincent Nichols and Peter Smith. In it they put before people “the Catholic vision of marriage and the light it casts on the importance of marriage for our society.”
http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2012/03/06/full-text-english-and-welsh-bishops-letter-on-same-sex-marriage/
I admit that I am very sympathetic to the beginning of Cardinal Keith O’Brien’s article in today’s Telegraph. A large photograph of Elton John below the headline “We cannot afford to indulge this madness” implies an opinion I share. Unfortunately, the article is not against the overrated pop singer, but is instead an ill-thought-out polemic on same-sex marriage.
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