WHO CREATES MARRIAGE?

[The state? The Times of London? Some other entity entirely? ...A thought prompted by the "gay Anglican clergy civil partnerships" threads, and this post specifically, from an anonymous commenter here. --Eve]

Um, er . . . reading the comments here makes me think some of you who pride yourselves in not being "taken in" by the "big media" are guilty of exactly that.

It is the article, not the new law, that calls these relationships "marriage." It is the article's slant, not what the bishop's actually said, that is causing a ruckus.

If the bishops of the C of E have done anything, they have upheld the traditional view of marriage by insisting that anyone who gets such a civil partnership not act as if they were married, i.e., not have sexual relations with their civil partner. The only other things they could do would be to a) condemn the law, which would be inneffectual, and / or b) try to police who was living under whose roof in the vicarage. Frankly, I think they should go for b, and in fact I think it may come to that, but really, other than a and b, what are you expecting them to do? Lead mass protests?

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