Letters
You helped me make up my mind
Dear Editor,
I had long been a proponent of marriage equality on general grounds but had been somewhat ambivalent on the matter of civil partnerships. Was a civil partnership “close enough” to actual marriage? Should same-sex couples be satisfied with that?
A quote attributed to Stampp Corbin in an article on the BBC News site convinced me that, no, it wasn’t good enough and that no one should have to “settle” for anything:
“Civil partnerships do not provide equality,” says Corbin, who was the National Co-Chair of the LGBT Leadership Council during the 2008 Obama presidential campaign. “And in the US, the notion of ‘separate but equal’ rekindles memories of segregation and the creation of second-class facilities.”
That one sentence drew a parallel that should have been immediately obvious to me.
Thank you for that.
MARCUS SIMMONS
