UK ban on lesbian marriage likened to racial segregation

H. Muir

A lesbian couple whose marriage abroad is not recognised in Britain yesterday likened English law to the racially segregated practices of the American deep south. At the beginning of a landmark legal challenge, university professors Celia Kitzinger and Sue Wilkinson told the high court that the refusal to recognise their relationship as a marriage rather than a civil partnership was as outdated as the anti-miscegenation laws that once stopped black people from marrying white people in segregated US states.