Civil Partnerships Quotes

It is absolutely right for the state to define the rights and status of people cohabiting in different forms of relationships, including civil partnerships.

I have not supported same-sex marriage. I have supported civil partnerships and contractual relationships.

I am for registered civil partnerships.

However saying that I totally support the concept of civil partnerships in the eyes of the law, and think it a disgrace that same sex couples have had to wait so long for legal rights, protection and recognition.

It's not a question of being out of touch or traditional. It's a question of wanting to preserve marriage as uniquely between a man and a woman. Gays get full civil rights with civil partnerships anyway.

If the rights of civil partners are met differently in law to those of married couples, there is no discrimination in law, and if civil partnerships are seen as somehow 'second class' that is a social attitude which will change and cannot, in any case, be turned around by redefining the law of marriage.

The virtue of the civil partnerships scheme lay in the attempt to treat the needs of gay and lesbian couples as what they are, not to bundle them into some other category.

Gay weddings will be remembered as Tony Blair's greatest achievement!