Originally Posted by martyh

but it is about getting it recognised as a marriage ,which is ultimately a religious thing and something the church is against because it changes the definition of marriage which as far as the church is concerned was defined by god not acts of parliament.There are no major legal changes between civil partnerships or civil marriages, but there is a massive religious one .If this goes through then C of E churches will ultimately be forced to allow same sex marriages in churches simply because they already allow civil partnerships to be blessed in church .Cameron is treading a very thin tight rope with this one and imo it will all boil down to the definition of marriage