tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271923532585508158.post3832417353216487058..comments2023-06-08T03:05:43.638-07:00Comments on Gay Married Californian: News from the UK: Civil partnerships in churchIThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09605163506396013904noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271923532585508158.post-8345311072774496262010-03-03T14:27:52.364-08:002010-03-03T14:27:52.364-08:00Crazy. By comparison, when we got married, our fr...Crazy. By comparison, when we got married, our friend C. was licensed for the day to perform the service, we had it at a venue of our choice, we made it all up from scratch and chose our music, and the only thing the government cared about was that the presider and the witnesses signed the form correctly, which we dropped off at the county records office the next day.IThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09605163506396013904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271923532585508158.post-43408235906233004272010-03-03T14:07:28.901-08:002010-03-03T14:07:28.901-08:00The irony is that this would possibly not have hap...The irony is that this would possibly not have happened if the church had not been so insistent that those who want religious ceremonies have to have them in church. The Government's response was to play it really safe and to prohibit any form of religious expression during civil ceremonies. This has resulted in ridiculous examples like Robbie Williams' song "Angels" being prohibited because it mentions religious symbols.<br /><br />When Civil partnerships came into being it made for a lot of awkwardness, because lgbt people were barred from having any religious ceremony in church, so Christian couples had no means of bringing God into their special day.<br /><br />When Susan and I got civil partnered we carefully selected poems from a lesbian Christian poet we knew whose delicate language allowed us to know what we were hearing but whose poems were obscure enough to pass the eyes of the registrar (we had written our own service and had to email it to the register office in advance to have it checked out).Erika Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01812376497361267014noreply@blogger.com