Lib Dems Marriage Without Borders petition

[strange_complex]

With thanks to diffrentcolours:

I'd just like to promote a new campaign by Nick Clegg and LGBT Lib Dems calling for Marriage Without Borders - removing the gender restrictions on marriages and civil partnerships, and improving international recognition of same-sex relationships.

Please sign the petition; if you're on Facebook you can become a fan, but do make sure you sign as well - and pimp it to your friends! Get HTML code to copy and paste!

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Comments

[weepingcross.livejournal.com]

Thank you, Penny. I'm persuaded by that argument (if I wasn't half-persuaded before). I don't want to convert your LJ into a debate about this any more than about Dr Who! but I suspect the challenge for Christians will be that allowing same-sex couples to have the word 'marriage' as well as the legal substance will force them (us) actually to think through why what the Church does is any different from what the State does, and so long as only straight people can marry we can hide behind the status quo. At vicar school we didn't so much as touch on the subject, and I've only gained any real insights into what marriage means by talking to the couples I take through the process. In retrospect I find this rather shocking.

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

No problem - glad to have helped you in your thinking. You make an important point there about the position which the Church would be placed in if the state were to make this change, which I hadn't thought of before. I can well see that that might provoke some quite painful and potentially divisive soul-searching - though of course, from my point of view, necessary.