Sir, – What is the difference between civil partnership and civil marriage in Irish law?
I think this needs to be made crystal clear to voters before they are asked to vote in the May referendum.
Unless we are clear about what we are voting for, the exercise is a nonsense. – Yours, etc,
KATHARINE DAVEY,
Shankill,
Dublin 18.
A chara, – This September, my long-suffering wife and myself will hopefully celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary. Our son has just celebrated the fifth anniversary of his civil partnership to his wonderful Brazilian husband. Both unions are equally and reciprocally enhanced by the other. As parents, I believe that our hope is that our sons and daughters will find love and end up in a loving, stable and permanent relationship. These relationships are not diminished by being gay. Love is love and it has always been thus. So let us be brave. Allow our gay sons and daughters access to the wonderful institution that is marriage with all its trials and tribulations but with a wealth of so many other good things that only the married among us are party to. – Is mise,
PAT BURKE WALSH,
Gorey,
Co Wexford.