Happy day for John Barrowman...

[fajrdrako]

Congratulations are in order for John Barrowman and his partner Steve Gill who did the legalization of a civil partnership today. Can this be put under the heading of 'tying the knot'?

I wish the article had a photo of John Barrowman in his kilt.

Comments

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

Cool!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I'd say it was.

At the same time, I am a little confused over what it means. Is it legally the same as marriage, but done under another name? Or is it legally different? What is the difference?

We don't have legal partnership category of this type in Canada, so I'm slightly at a loss as to its significance.

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm no expert, but I think it's much like the civil marriages you get at the registry office (like my parents had in the early '60s). It's just that it's not called marriage, to placate the God-botherers.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

So in everything but the actual use and connotations of the word, they really did get married? I like that idea.

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

Yes: to all intents and purposes, it amounts to the same thing.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Wonderful!

[idiotgrrl.livejournal.com]

I would certainly call it "Tying the Knot." I have been at some Holy Unions here in Albuquerque that may not have had legal standing in the New Mexico courts but were surely weddings all the same.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Part of my confusion is that John Barrowman has said firmly that he doesn't see this as being the same as marriage; I don't think he's religious so be probaby wouldn't call it a Holy Union... and I don't know how these things are generally regarded in the UK. I suspect that everyone everywhere is sort of confused, and that the answer varies from one individual to another. Nor do I understand the legal situation.

Making it a legal marriage, as we do here, doesn't confuse me in the least. It's the gradated versions of gay non-marriage that have me scratching my head and wondering.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

This is the sort of thing that happens when the affected portion of a given community has a divided opinion on matters directly affecting them. No wonder that there's this confusion as a result.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Y'know, it makes me really, really glad that Canada has marriage and calls it that. There may be as many opinions of marriage as there are Canadians, one way or another, but at least it's a simple concept that we all recognize!

And as you know, I really like the one-size-fits-all equality of it.

[lilithlotr.livejournal.com]

txvoodoo has a gallery of them!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Wonderful! Oh, that kilt, that kilt!

[filkferengi]

Mazel tov! Yay for Benedick[s] the married men!