Marraige Equality launches Just Love Billboards and Missing Pieces
Published: Thursday, October 20, 2011
On Tuesday, October 4th, 2011 Marriage Equality launched our "Just Love?" campaign to highlight the discrimination that same-sex couples in Ireland continue to experience as a result of the lack of marriage equality. Although civil partnership, introduced at the beginning of 2011, offers legal recognition to same sex couples relationships as well as many of the rights and obligations that are available to married couples, it is not marriage and it therefore not equality. Along with a short film Rory's Story and Missing Pieces, a marriage audit report detailing 169 legislative differences between civil partnership and marriage, Marriage Equality has also launched a "Just Love?" poster campaign showing images of real couples who are affected by this marriage ban.
Just Love? - Missing Pieces
The Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010 (Civil Partnership Act) was signed into law on 19 July 2010, with the first civil partnerships being recognised by the State in January of 2011. This report outlines the findings of an audit of the rights and responsibilities gained by same-sex partners who register their relationship under this Act, compared to the legislative rights and responsibilities currently available to heterosexual couples, gained through civil marriage.