Thank you for that link; have just filled it in (with several strident-ish comments). I honestly cannot see any justification for not allowing civil marriages (or religious marriages, admittedly, but I am an atheist, which might affect my judgement somewhat) between same-sex couples. Arguments against it just make me so angry. If civil marriage is a state-only thing, anyway, what possible right do the Church have to dictate how it should be? And if they say that all marriage, even civil marriage, comes under their jurisdiction and needs to conform to Christianity's rules, then I don't want any of it. Civil partnerships for opposite-sex couples too, please.