12 Facts About Civil partnership

Domestic Civil partnership, offered by some states, counties, cities, and employers since as early as 1985, has generally connoted a lesser status with fewer benefits.

Civil partnership unions are not seen as a replacement for marriage by many in the LGBT community.

Civil partnership unions are commonly criticised as being 'separate but equal'; critics such as former New Zealand MP and feminist Marilyn Waring note that same-sex couples remain excluded from the right to marry and are forced to use a separate institution.

Civil partnership unions were introduced in Denmark by law on 7 June 1989, the world's first such law, and came into effect on 1 October 1989.

In December 2014, the Sejm refused to deal with a civil partnership bill proposed by Your Movement, with 235 MPs voting against debating the bill, and 185 MPs voting for.

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Civil partnership unions have been proposed in at least six states since 2006.

The debate over Civil partnership Unions was highly divisive in New Zealand, inspiring great public emotion both for and against the passing.

Civil partnership Union Act 2004 came into effect on 26 April 2005 with the first unions able to occur from Friday 29 April 2005.

Furthermore, California's domestic partnership law had been expanded to the point that it became practically a civil union law as well.

In California, where domestic Civil partnership has been available to same-sex and certain opposite-sex couples since 2000, a wholesale revision of the law in 2005 made it substantially equivalent to marriage at the state level.

In 2004, the state of New Jersey enacted a domestic Civil partnership law, offering certain limited rights and benefits to same-sex and different-sex couples.

Civil partnership unions were permitted in Rhode Island since July 1,2011 until July 1,2013.