Sentences with phrase «in civil partnership ceremonies»

Liberty also submitted that to permit certain designated registrars the right to refuse to carry out the full range of their duties would amount to a form of segregation, between those who participated in civil partnership ceremonies and those who undertook traditional marriages.

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Civil partnerships between same - sex couples in the UK — 2004, with the first ceremonies being able to take place in 2005, during my first year at University

There were 376 civil partnership ceremonies in 2015, 250 male unions and 126 female unions.

«Allowing civil partnership ceremonies to have a religious content and to be held in places of worship is a significant advance for gay and religious freedom,» he said.

Some humanists also contribute to society through their work as celebrants, helping the non-religious to mark important occasions in their lives in humanist ceremonies for baby namings, weddings, civil partnerships and funerals.

The change in law to allow civil partnership ceremonies to take place in places of worship was made in the Equality Act 2010 and is coming into force this year.

The BHA has responded in light of remarks made by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, stating that the Church of England would not support permit civil partnership ceremonies to be held in its churches, nor would it support any attempts to have equal gay marriage.

Downing Street have already revealed that Brown is going to use the hearing to declare that he's in favour of the Palace of Westminster being used for civil partnership ceremonies.

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As regards the finding of indirect discrimination, the EAT accepted that the requirement for all registrars to perform civil partnership ceremonies placed persons of the claimant's religion at a particular disadvantage in comparison with other persons who do not share the same religion.

In 2004 she made it known that she was unwilling to undertake civil partnership ceremonies.

Referring to the case of London Borough of Islington v Ladele [2009] EWCA Civ 1357, in which a registrar refused on religious grounds to perform civil partnership ceremonies, Lord Carey said the field of sexual ethics and Christian teaching was complex, and it was «regrettable» that senior members of the judiciary felt able to make disparaging comments and to use the «unbefitting» descriptive word, «discriminatory».

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The couple, who work at Argos, formed a civil partnership at a ceremony in Northern Ireland last year.

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