Comments on: “This is for all the people who came before us” http://www.antoniabance.org.uk/2005/12/19/this-is-for-all-the-people-who-came-before-us/ Thoughts of Antonia, Labour activist and feminist in Oxford Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:03:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Mike http://www.antoniabance.org.uk/2005/12/19/this-is-for-all-the-people-who-came-before-us/#comment-890 Mike Tue, 20 Dec 2005 13:44:55 +0000 http://www.antoniabance.org.uk/2005/12/19/this-is-for-all-the-people-who-came-before-us/#comment-890 Grainne: Graw-nya (accent on first syllable). Merry Christmas both of you! Mike :-) Grainne: Graw-nya (accent on first syllable).

Merry Christmas both of you! Mike :-)

]]> By: Antonia http://www.antoniabance.org.uk/2005/12/19/this-is-for-all-the-people-who-came-before-us/#comment-889 Antonia Tue, 20 Dec 2005 10:08:05 +0000 http://www.antoniabance.org.uk/2005/12/19/this-is-for-all-the-people-who-came-before-us/#comment-889 Yeah, of course. But Tatchell's article is nonsense. Yeah, of course. But Tatchell’s article is nonsense.

]]> By: Tim Roll-Pickering http://www.antoniabance.org.uk/2005/12/19/this-is-for-all-the-people-who-came-before-us/#comment-888 Tim Roll-Pickering Mon, 19 Dec 2005 22:02:30 +0000 http://www.antoniabance.org.uk/2005/12/19/this-is-for-all-the-people-who-came-before-us/#comment-888 <i>do you think someone should have told the homophobes outside (see the picture further down) that women don’t usually sodomise other women?!</i> It looks like the usual Paisleyite brigade. I wonder if they would have changed their tune if someone told them that the Pope doesn't approve either? <i>I want equality with my straight friends and family, a recognition that my relationship with Jo is as strong and as committed as that between any man and woman.</i> But is it equal provision? At the moment it looks like straight couples have marriages, gay couples have civil partnerships to register their relationships. Surely it would have been better all round (and a big two fingers up to the backward hicks) to simply remove all gender references in marriage and allow equal access to marriage? do you think someone should have told the homophobes outside (see the picture further down) that women don’t usually sodomise other women?!

It looks like the usual Paisleyite brigade. I wonder if they would have changed their tune if someone told them that the Pope doesn’t approve either?

I want equality with my straight friends and family, a recognition that my relationship with Jo is as strong and as committed as that between any man and woman.

But is it equal provision? At the moment it looks like straight couples have marriages, gay couples have civil partnerships to register their relationships.

Surely it would have been better all round (and a big two fingers up to the backward hicks) to simply remove all gender references in marriage and allow equal access to marriage?

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