Alan Shatter's campaign to abolish Inheritance Tax

[ClubMan]

Except the dogooders wanted Marriage, which ended up replacing the ability to have a Civil Partnership.

You mean all the do gooders who voted c. 60:40 in favour of changing the constitution to allow for marriage equality?

 

[Towger]

You mean all the do gooders who voted c. 60:40 in favour of changing the constitution to allow for marriage equality?

The do gooders who pushed Same Sex Marriage through to become a law, which replaced a Civil Partnership. It discriminates against people who are not in a sexual relationship but are living together.

 

[torblednam]

The do gooders who pushed Same Sex Marriage through to become a law, which replaced a Civil Partnership. It discriminates against people who are not in a sexual relationship but are living together.

Well we could have had both, I don't see why / how the same sex marriage lobby necessarily adversely impacts that.

Of course, civil partnership itself was inherently discriminatory as it was only available to people of the same sex.

 

[T McGibney]

I can’t comment on what goes on in the border counties late at night.

What on earth are you on about?

 

[torblednam]

What on earth are you on about?

Uncles marrying their nephews up your direction, purportedly...

 

[T McGibney]

Uncles marrying their nephews up your direction, purportedly...

That's precisely why I asked him what on earth was he on about.
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Matt Murphy, originally from Cashel, Co Tipperary, married Michael O'Sullivan in order for him to avoid paying inheritance tax on his home in Stoneybatter in Dublin.

 

[Dr Strangelove]

same as a French Civil Solidarity Pact

It’s a pity this isn’t available to both same- and opposite-sex couples in Ireland.

To give most of the legal protections of marriage without the symbolism.

 

[torblednam]

That's precisely why I asked him what on earth was he on about.
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They weren't uncle and nephew though, were they? It seemed like you were referring to a different instance...

 

[ClubMan]

To give most of the legal protections of marriage without the symbolism.

What "symbolism"? It's basically a binding legal contract. Practically the opposite of symbolic.

 

[Dr Strangelove]

What "symbolism"?

No churches, being dressed in white, changing your surname, etc.

A French PACS avoids all this and is just an appointment with a bureaucrat in a town hall.

 

[misemoi]

No churches, being dressed in white, changing your surname, etc.

A French PACS avoids all this and is just an appointment with a bureaucrat in a town hall.

To be fair, those are all wedding things not legal marriage things. And being done by less and less people these days.

 

[ClubMan]

No churches, being dressed in white, changing your surname, etc.

Those are personal choices and not mandated by the marriage contract.