Don't you lot over there love to make heavy weather of things! When, here in UK, the Civil Partnership Act of 2004 was passed, three longstanding pairs of my friends, John-Stuart & Ricky, Mandy & Nicola, David & Brian, all invited us to their Civil Unions and receptions. A few years later, when the status was emended to be called 'marriage', they all proceeded to go back to the registrar's office and get married, and gave us another lovely lot of canapés and drinkies. I can't recall any of them suffering the remotest degree of obstruction or inconvenience from the officials concerned or anybody else.

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