Britain To Recognize Same-Sex Couples At Midnight

Midnight tonight same-sex marriage becomes legal in Britain.

Same-sex couples getting married in England and Wales will have to wait until Saturday 29th March to hold their ceremony but a quirk in the law – first reported by BuzzFeed – means couples who married overseas will have their unions automatically recognised from tomorrow onwards.

This includes Celia Kitzinger and Sue Wilkinson, two university professors who married in Canada in 2003 and spent the last decade campaigning for their partnership to be recognised in Britain. Tomorrow, thanks to the government’s decision to bring forward the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act, that day will finally come.

“It’s like being turned into a pumpkin on the stroke of midnight,” Celia told BuzzFeed.

By: Cheston Catalano

Cheston Catalano is a Kentucky-based journalist whose work has been featured in the Chattanooga Times Free Press and the Clarksville Leaf Chronicle. He is a long-time contributor to Liberaland.