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muriel_volestrangler

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1. Seems fairly pointless to me - I don't see their feelings about "patriarchal baggage"

Reply to sandensea (Original post)

Thu Jun 28, 2018, 08:41 AM

Jun 2018

as a human rights issue. Having heterosexual civil partnerships might as well happen, since it doesn't inconvenience anyone, but I think the language of human rights is cheapened slightly by this argument. That, of course, is just my feeling too, but I won't be going to court about it.

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Seems fairly pointless to me - I don't see their feelings about "patriarchal baggage" muriel_volestrangler Jun 2018 #1