Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Amendment) Bill fails in Commons
from Family Law Week:
The Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Amendment) Bill, sponsored by Tim Loughton MP, has failed at its second reading in the House of Commons. The Bill, if enacted, would have amended the Civil Partnership Act 2004 to provide that opposite sex couples may enter a civil partnership.
In the debate Mr Loughton, explaining the need for the legislation, said:
“There are a whole lot of complex motives as to why many of our constituents do not go down the formal marriage route. They are mostly still in committed, loving relationships, but if they do not want to go for traditional marriage, they have no way of having those relationships recognised in the eyes of the state, just as was the case for same-sex couples pre-2004.”
Mr Loughton said that there existed an inequality between heterosexual and homosexual couples.
Rober Halfon MP, for the government, referred to the 2014 consultation:
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