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Posted: 11/24/09 at 10:38pm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/8376937.stm
Mr Freeman and Miss Doyle, both 25, from Islington, have been in a relationship for four years.
Mr Freeman said: "It would be lovely to formalise our relationship but we are completely turned off by the whole institution of marriage because it discriminates against gay people."
He added: "We think gay people should be able to have a standard marriage and straight people should be able to have a civil partnership."
Miss Doyle said: "We want a choice and all other couples should also have a choice, irrespective of their sexuality."
Their bid was supported by human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell.
Mr Tatchell said: "The ban on heterosexual civil partnerships is heterophobic. It is disciminatory and offensive."
Mr Freeman and Miss Doyle, both 25, from Islington, have been in a relationship for four years.
Mr Freeman said: "It would be lovely to formalise our relationship but we are completely turned off by the whole institution of marriage because it discriminates against gay people."
He added: "We think gay people should be able to have a standard marriage and straight people should be able to have a civil partnership."
Miss Doyle said: "We want a choice and all other couples should also have a choice, irrespective of their sexuality."
Their bid was supported by human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell.
Mr Tatchell said: "The ban on heterosexual civil partnerships is heterophobic. It is disciminatory and offensive."
"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert
