I've been quietly pondering this for a while, but a recent conversation made me want to put it on MN.
As you might know, when you get divorced, you have to provide grounds for divorce. There are various things you can say, and to some extent, these are a bit of a fig leaf. For example, you can claim 'unreasonable behaviour' when all you really mean is 's/he seems quite nice but is driving me up the fucking wall and we're not compatible'.
What slightly surprises me is that, according to the Government website, you cannot cite same-sex adultery. It just doesn't count.
Same-sex marriage is legal, obviously. But the site claims adultery only applies if "your husband or wife had sex with someone else of the opposite sex."
I thought it must be an error, that they'd just not updated since same-sex marriage came in, but actually, that doesn't make much sense either, does it? And presumably we're long beyond the period when adultery was an issue purely because people expected marriages to produces biological children?
Can anyone understand the reasoning here? And can anyone tell me if it is an error, or if this is really law? If it is, it actually seems quite homophobic to me really.
The site is here, btw:
www.gov.uk/divorce/grounds-for-divorce
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JeanneDeMontbaston · 24/03/2016 12:14
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