A) I think I have said this before but so long as all parties concerned are consenting and in agreement, why not? of course the next argument the "anti" crowd brings up is Marriage with animals or inanimate objects - Animals cant consent and frankly who cares if someone marries an inanimate object (they are just saving us time in declaring them mentally unstable...)

B) I disagree with the ECHR on a number of rulings - this being one of them - I don't see how a Church which has the right to Worship cant chose who it marries based on the tenants of its faith... there are already Churches in UK that will only marry couples who follow their guidelines (i.e. attending Church on Sundays for x number of Month's before the marriage) how is this different?

I wasn't aware of those differences - though they do seem to only concern the "ending" of the Partnership - I still think they are close enough to each other that calling them both Marriages is fair enough