05 May 2006

The brides wore hijabs


The headline sounds like a mass wedding held by a wealthy emir, but, in fact, describes something very different: the first publicly-reported case of Muslim lesbians forming a civil partnership under English law. That's an interesting development; indeed, one hopes that it is a straw in the wind, indicating the breaking down of prohibitions against love, and a step closer to universal decency. Unfortunately, that's not very likely as this story indicates.

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