The difference with civil ceremonies is that there are legal and financial rights, expectations and privileges.

Difficult not to concur, since I made the same point.

Anthropological nuance aside, denying those to a group is discriminatory.

I also said the same, minus the smear on AnthropologicalNuance^TM. I don't feel like dragging this out, but one must agree that there is more to life than legal and financial rights, expectations and privileges. I can't think of any, but certainly there must be something.

Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.

Frank Delaney ~ Ireland