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Originally Posted by stuartbe
I thought that that a common in law wife/husband had the same rights ??
O.K. if not - why not have a contract made out ??
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A contract would not give gays the rights of next of kin, or get around inheritance tax, or get pension payments.
Gays would like these if they are in a permanent relationship.
Hetrosexuals have this with either a religious marriage or civil marriage in a registry office (I think the legal part of it is actually the same, the religious part just has the extra ceremony, ie if you just had the ceremony, you'd not be legally married, hence the signing of the registry)
Gay rights groups just want the rights, not the wedding, not the marriage. Something like a registry wedding, but with no ceremony at all.