{"id":10086,"date":"2017-02-21T15:25:59","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T15:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=10086"},"modified":"2025-07-10T08:11:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T07:11:50","slug":"civil-partnership-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/civil-partnership-confusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil Partnership confusion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Charles Keidan and Rebecca Steinfeld are challenging the Civil Partnership Act<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The UK Government’s Civil Partnership law has been thrown into confusion by a case heard today in the Court of Appeal<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Charles Keidan and Rebecca Steinfeld brought a case demanding the right to enter into a Civil Partnership. \u00a0Currently, under the\u00a0Civil Partnership Act, only homosexuals can apply. \u00a0Or to be more specific, unrelated persons of the same sex.<\/p>\n

Civil Partnership Act<\/h2>\n

Civil Partners are granted all the rights of marriage. They are free of\u00a0inheritance tax on property which passes from one to the other on the death of a party to the ‘partnership’. \u00a0They are also excused from being compelled to testify against each other. \u00a0In general, neither can be compelled to give evidence against the other<\/a><\/strong>. That exemption could be crucial in a sexual abuse case involving a third party, for example.<\/p>\n

The Act was meant to convey all the benefits of marriage. At the time it was passed, the Government of the day, under Tony Blair, gave a number of undertakings. \u00a0Among them was an assurance that marriage for homosexual couples was out of the question. \u00a0Heterosexuals had marriage, homosexuals had civil partnership, they said.<\/p>\n

However, one\u00a0parliament cannot bind a successor. \u00a0David Cameron’s Conservatives\u00a0legislated for ‘gay marriage’ in 2012. \u00a0And of course all Tony Blair’s promises counted for nothing. \u00a0Nor did the Tories do away with civil partnerships in the process. \u00a0So homosexuals now have two options for state recognition of their relationship and heterosexuals just one. \u00a0That is what\u00a0Charles Keidan and Rebecca Steinfeld argued was unfair. \u00a0And the judges agreed it breaches their right to a family life.<\/p>\n

Government considering their options<\/h2>\n

Nevertheless, the couple did not secure a ruling that the situation was unlawful. \u00a0The\u00a0Government are considering their options at the moment. \u00a0They are looking into the whole situation of civil partnerships in the light of gay marriage. \u00a0That saved them.<\/p>\n

But as\u00a0Rebecca Steinfeld said after the hearing, the matter cannot stand as it is. \u00a0There is an inequality. \u00a0So what should we pray the Government do?<\/p>\n

They can hardly repeal the Civil Partnership Act. \u00a0Numerous homosexual couples took advantage of it. \u00a0Most believied it was all they were going to get. \u00a0Some have ‘converted’ their partnerships into ‘gay marriage’. \u00a0But others reject the symbolism of marriage. \u00a0Perhaps they are\u00a0more astute.<\/p>\n

But that leaves heterosexual couples who perhaps don’t care for the ‘patriarchy’ of marriage out on a limb. if Parliament extends civil partnerships to them, the Government will lose millions in inheritance tax. \u00a0And\u00a0what about spinster sisters living together? \u00a0Should they include them as well?<\/p>\n

What should we pray for?<\/h2>\n

We are like the travellers trying to reach a West Country town from deep in the Devon lanes. \u00a0They asked a local man what route they should take. \u00a0‘Well’, he said, ‘If I was you, I wouldn’t be a-starting from ‘ere’.<\/p>\n

Our Government instituted\u00a0wickedness with the\u00a0Civil Partnership Act. \u00a0They made\u00a0matters\u00a0worse with the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act. \u00a0Anything they do now will devalue marriage further. \u00a0So what can we pray for except wholesale repentance? \u00a0Leave your comment below, please!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mark 10:6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. 7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; 8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh<\/b>. (KJV)<\/p>\n

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