I’D LIKE to congratulate Celia Kitzinger and Sue Wilkinson on their 2003 Canadian same-sex marriage now being recognised in the UK (The Press, March 14).

I firmly believe that anyone who wants to get married should be allowed to do so, and if you marry the right person, like I have, it’s a lovely way to be.

I enthusiastically took part in the Government consultation in 2012 to argue for same-sex couples to be allowed to get married. I’m saddened, though, that many religious same-sex couples may not be allowed to marry in their chosen place of worship.

However, if we are to extend equality and fairness a bit further, I’d like to see opposite-sex couples allowed to have a civil partnership, which is currently only allowed for same-sex couples.

I am friends with a couple who have been happy together for many years, and have children together, but don’t want to get married but would like a civil partnership.

They are both bisexual, and over the years have had other lovers, and have, it seems, a considerably more liberated ‘private life’ then the majority of us.

Because of their ‘honest non-monogamy’ they feel a marriage ceremony would be inappropriate.

I wonder how long they’ll have to wait before they can express their union in the way they want to?

John Cossham, Hull Road, York.