Sir, I am gay and in a stable monogamous relationship of over seven years. I do not want the right to marry or enter into any de facto matrimonial arrangement, nor do I want any religious body to endorse and sanctify my union (reports, August 1).
However, I do want the following rights for any two people who elect to live as a couple: the right to designate my next of kin for all matters; the right to share my partner’s pension rights; the right to jointly own property; the right to automatically inherit my partner’s property; the right not to be discriminated against in housing, taxation and general life matters.
Please can we shift the argument off the matrimonial bed and into the general arena of equitable and natural human rights.
Yours faithfully,
CHRISTOPHER POWELL,
4 Hillside of Keir,
Dunblane, Perthshire FK15 9NT.
August 1.
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From Dr Rob Clother
Sir, In view of the sex scandals that have bedevilled the Roman Catholic Church during the past decade, should not the Vatican attend to the beam in its own eye before even considering a mote in the eye of our civil institutions?
Yours faithfully,
ROB CLOTHER,
Flat 1, 59 Grange Park Road,
Leyton, E10 5ER.
August 4.