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theHandpuppet

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Sat Aug 23, 2014, 01:26 PM Aug 2014

Archbishop of Canterbury rules pair’s 23-year marriage ‘invalid’ over birth certificate error

Sheer insanity!

Archbishop of Canterbury rules pair’s 23-year marriage ‘invalid’ over birth certificate error
A British woman whose birth certificate incorrectly said she was male says the Archbishop of Canterbury intervened to void her marriage.

Kim Walmsley, 49, had been married to husband Jack for over 23 years, and lived with him and their five children on Australia’s Gold Coast.

However, their marriage has now been declared invalid, after it was discovered that an error on the registrar’s copy of Kim’s birth certificate incorrectly identified her as male.

According to the General Registry Office, the pair’s marriage was technically an illegal same-sex marriage, even though Kim has always been female, and has biological children...

...“The archbishop of Canterbury wrote to tell us he could no longer recognise our marriage of 23 years.”....

MORE http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2014/05/02/uk-womans-23-year-marriage-declared-invalid-over-male-birth-certificate-error/

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Archbishop of Canterbury rules pair’s 23-year marriage ‘invalid’ over birth certificate error (Original Post) theHandpuppet Aug 2014 OP
Insane. oldandhappy Aug 2014 #1
Why? rock Aug 2014 #2
The Anglicans are not under the Pope shenmue Aug 2014 #4
Oh that is too bad! rock Aug 2014 #7
Wipe out a marriage because of a typing mistake? That is insane. oldandhappy Aug 2014 #5
WTH? deathrind Aug 2014 #3
Yep Old Codger Aug 2014 #6
A little compassion and some imagination should fix this quickly. Matilda Aug 2014 #8
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