BrE: Marriage inclusive of CUs

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Wed Jul 11 16:46:39 UTC 2007


At 8:21 AM -0700 7/11/07, Benjamin Barrett wrote:
>Here's a good article that demonstrates this path on the other side of
>the Atlantic: http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=278010
>
>"Ms Beddoes soon moved into the Mitchell home and she married Mrs
>Mitchell at the local registry office in February of 2006...By the time
>of the civil union, Mr Mitchell had moved out of the family home along
>with the five children."
>
Mitchell is not really a true "lesbian bigamist" as the headline
proclaims, though--she's more of a bi bigamist.

LH

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