Today Marriage Equality launches its Just Love? campaign with a ground-breaking report, Missing Pieces, which reveals 169 legal differences between civil marriage and civil partnership.
Described as “an abdication of legislative responsibility”, the report rebuts claims that civil partnership provides same-sex couples with equality in all but name. The Foreword to the Report states neatly that “through civil partnership the Irish State has created a separate and unequal institution on many levels. Most profoundly the relationship between children and their gay and lesbian parents is not part of the civil partnership package”.
Separately, RTÉ reported last night that the Department of Foreign Affairs have no plans to alter passport application forms to reflect the growing number of same-sex couples parenting children. Such steps have recently been taken in the UK.
to read the Missing Pieces report.