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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/couples-in-human-rights-challenge.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Couples are launching a legal bid to overturn bans on gay civil marriages and heterosexual civil partnerships" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-couples-in-human-rights-challenge.jpg" alt="Couples are launching a legal bid to overturn bans on gay civil marriages and heterosexual civil partnerships"/></a></p>
<p>A legal bid to overturn bans on gay civil marriages and heterosexual civil partnerships is due to be launched at the European Court of Human Rights.</p>
<p>Eight British couples are filing a joint application under the case, which is being brought by campaign group Equal Love.</p>
<p>The four heterosexual and four same-sex couples have all recently been refused licences for civil partnerships and marriages.</p>
<p>They claim they are being discriminated against because of their sexual orientation.</p>
<p>Gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell, who is co-ordinating the Equal Love campaign, said: &#8220;Banning black couples from getting married would provoke uproar. The prohibition on gay marriages should arouse similar outrage.</p>
<p>&#8220;The ban on same-sex civil marriages and opposite-sex civil partnerships is a form of legal sexual apartheid &#8211; one law for gay couples and another law for heterosexual partners. Two wrongs don&#8217;t make a right.</p>
<p>&#8220;In a democratic society we should all be equal before the law.&#8221;</p>
<p>More than 40,000 same-sex couples have entered into civil partnerships since they were introduced in 2005.</p>
<p>They mostly afford the same legal rights as married couples, but campaigners believe the arrangement lacks the status enjoyed by marriage.</p>
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