Hot topic: getting hitched
The advent of civil partnership ceremonies and Dame Butler-Sloss’ remarks about the Government’s supposed failure to promote marriage means there’s some great writing around at the moment on the subject of making a commitment to someone you love - Natalie at Philobiblon, with added value from my own SO, and Tom, who’s returned to blogging with a deconstruction of policies to promote marriage - especially pertinent as he’s getting married himself in a year’s time (congratulations!), and Small Town Scribbles, on her own decision to get married.
When this by-election is over, I’ll post up my own thoughts. In the meantime, this NIB from yesterday’s Guardian caught in my throat:
Terminally ill gay man dies day after ceremony
A man who is believed to be the first in Britain to tie the knot with his partner in a civil partnership ceremony has died. Matthew Roche, 46, who had cancer, passed away yesterday at a hospice in Worthing, West Sussex, a day after the ceremony.
Mr Roche and his partner Christopher Cramp, from Southwick, near Brighton, were given a “special dispensation” to hold the ceremony which was attended by family and friends.
