British heterosexual couple lose bid to have civil partnership instead of marriage

LONDON (Reuters) - A heterosexual British couple who object to what they call the patriarchal nature of marriage narrowly lost a court bid on Tuesday to be able to enter into a civil partnership after judges upheld a ruling that such unions were only eligible to those of the same sex.

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