ten years' waiting, but it's better late than the never we've been told before

[frith_in_thorns]

The UK government is currently running a public consultation on whether same-sex couples should be allowed to marry.

Go and reply to it. It's very quick - you can just check the boxes, even. (I'm assuming you're all in favour - if you aren't I have to wonder if I'm on your flist by accident :P)

I don't see anything that says you have to be a UK citizen to reply.

Comments

[schneefink]

Wow, I'm suddenly slightly impressed by the UK government.
I was amused by the box that basically says "tell us why same-sex marriage should((/should not)) be allowed in no more than 200 words." Yay for debate club training, I guess *g*

[tj-teejay.livejournal.com]

Oops. The anonymous comment came from me. Sorry, didn't realize I wasn't logged in. And here I was wondering why I had to enter captcha data. What I posted was this:

I'm as straight as they come, but I have still completed the survey because I think it's important not to discriminate against non-heterosexuals. It's quite sad that in this day and age, we're even still discussing this.

[gekkoryu.livejournal.com]

I'm asexual, so I like to think I'm pretty objective when it comes to this kind of thing, but gender is arbitrary. I hope this legislature goes through. Survey completed.

[moon-destiny.livejournal.com]

Voted. :D I like to think that whoever wants to get marry, regardless of their gender and/or sex, I think they should have the right to. (Personally though, I'm kinda very anti-marriage for myself, but I like to think I'm objective enough that I would not want to stand in the way of others' happiness.)

[littlered2.livejournal.com]

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.

[maerynsen.livejournal.com]

Well, if you do have to be a UK citizen, they weren't doing a very good job of enforcing it, because I just filled it out. \o\ Thank you for sharing that!