Comments on: Gay Marriage gets its Church-scared bill in England and Wales https://wolfiewolfgang.com/gay-marriage-gets-its-church-scared/ Check in for my regular blogs and reviews Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:29:03 +0000 hourly 1 By: Brian https://wolfiewolfgang.com/gay-marriage-gets-its-church-scared/#comment-1128 Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:29:03 +0000 https://wolfiewolfgang.com/?p=558#comment-1128 Indeed. Perhaps I should have named Vita & husband Nigel as my "poster children" in place of Mrs. Woolf and Mrs. Sackville-West. 😉

Brian

]]> By: WolfieWolfgang (Colin Bell) https://wolfiewolfgang.com/gay-marriage-gets-its-church-scared/#comment-1127 Wed, 12 Dec 2012 15:34:46 +0000 https://wolfiewolfgang.com/?p=558#comment-1127 Hehe, so true. It's calling all heterosexual husbands to experiment too of course!

]]> By: Brian https://wolfiewolfgang.com/gay-marriage-gets-its-church-scared/#comment-1126 Wed, 12 Dec 2012 00:38:10 +0000 https://wolfiewolfgang.com/?p=558#comment-1126 Thanks for the clarification, Colin.

Note to all Sapphic-leaning ladies of Great Britain: take a lesson from Virginia and Vita and enjoy yourselves. Your inheritances are safe.

High time women got something decent out of this too often absurd institution.

]]> By: WolfieWolfgang (Colin Bell) https://wolfiewolfgang.com/gay-marriage-gets-its-church-scared/#comment-1125 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 17:13:37 +0000 https://wolfiewolfgang.com/?p=558#comment-1125 Silly as it sounds, this is the situation Brian. Just as a heterosexual married woman couldn't commit adultery with another woman etc. This doesn't mean there aren't other grounds for divorce though. I suspect it is a legal nicety because there are many grounds for divorce which could be cited in a heterosexual or a same-sex marriage. I think it is a biology thing – illicit offspring and that kinda thing. It still sounds like a double standard though.

]]> By: Brian https://wolfiewolfgang.com/gay-marriage-gets-its-church-scared/#comment-1124 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:48:45 +0000 https://wolfiewolfgang.com/?p=558#comment-1124 Colin,

According to the BBC online:

"In its response to the consultation the government says it has no plans to change the definition of adultery or non-consummation of a marriage – which means neither could be cited as grounds for divorce in a same-sex marriage, unless the adultery was with someone of the opposite sex."

Can you shed some light on this? Am I correct in reading a double-standard and eccentric form of discrimination embodied in the new law? Does it really mean that a married gay spouse cannot file for divorce if the adultery was committed with a member of the SAME sex? Surely, I'm misunderstanding something here.

Brian

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