The Other Sarah

Tag: Gay Rights

  • The spousal veto is still a veto, even if you pretend it isn’t

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    So, the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act got given Royal Assent yesterday and, while I’m happy at the general idea of people in same-gender marriages being able to marry, I’m not singing Dancing Queen and waving my pride flag just yet. Because the legislation contains a rather insidious prejudiced open secret: the spousal veto. The…

  • The Devil in the Details: Reading the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill

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    I would like to thank Sarah Brown, Jae Kay, and Zoe O’Connell for their analyses of the bill so far; I’ve had some time to read the bill over the past 36 hours and I’ve got my own comments. Were I to grade the legislation, I’d give it 6/10, could do better. In the abstract,…

  • Why I’m Out4Marriage

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    Please consider supporting campaigns such as Out4Marriage and the Coalition for Equal Marriage. It was World Pride Day in London yesterday and I’m stuck in Yorkshire. So I thought I’d do a few posts over the following days about LGBT stuff. This is the first one. It’s something I think I should’ve done a long…