Government cowardly on civil partnership

WITH regard to the recently-published Civil Partnership Bill, I find it incredible that so-called modern Ireland has a government that refuses to give all of its citizens equal rights.

Must the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) community beg for equality on their knees like beggars on the street, second-class citizens in their own country?

This bill does little more than reinforce the existing prejudice surrounding the LGBT community and further highlights the cowardice of the Government.