Policing minister Nick Herbert ‘rather fed up’ with being told civil partnerships are enough for gay
*Posting this for those who seem to think it's good enough for GLBT in the USA, too.*
Policing minister Nick Herbert ‘rather fed up’ with being told civil partnerships are enough for gay couples
The Minister of State for Police and Criminal Justice Nick Herbert has said he is ‘forever grateful’ to those who voted for civil partnership legislation but ‘getting rather fed up’ with being told gay couples should be satisfied with the system.
In an interview with the Evening Standard, Nick Herbert, who entered a civil partnership in 2009, Mr Herbert praised the courage of the MPs who voted in the civil partnership system but said it was time for gay couples to be allowed to marry.
But he said he was “getting rather fed up with people metaphorically jabbing a finger into my chest and saying I should put up with a civil partnership”.
“How would they like it if I jabbed a finger into their chests and said they should put up with a civil partnership instead of their marriage? In my view it’s not acceptable to say to a group in society, ‘You should put up with something that is a second order institution to something that everybody else is entitled to, because we say so’.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/05/31/policing-minister-nick-herbert-rather-fed-up-with-being-told-civil-partnerships-are-enough-for-gay-couples/
