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LONDON – British Prime Minister Theresa May said the government would amend the law so that opposite-sex couples could form civil partnerships.
The decision was announced Tuesday at a May conservative party conference. It followed a decision of the United Kingdom Supreme Court that not allowing heterosexual couples to benefit from civil partnerships was "inconsistent" with human rights laws.
The decision was made in a case involving a couple who wanted to avoid the "patriarchal baggage" of the marriage. Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan argued that limiting partnerships to same-sex couples was discriminatory.
Same-sex couples have been able to form civil partnerships in Britain since 2005, which gives them the legal protections, adoption rights and inheritance rights of married heterosexual couples.
The country legalized same-sex marriage in 2014.
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