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Tom Freeman and Katherine Doyle hope to make history on Tuesday by becoming the first straight couple to apply for a civil partnership in the United Kingdom. The pair expect to be turned down by the registrar due to the ban on opposite-sex civil partnerships, but they plan on appealing the refusal.

"Because we feel alienated from the patriarchal traditions of marriage, we would prefer to have a civil partnership. As a mixed-sex couple, we are banned by law from doing so,” explained Doyle in the couple’s statement. “By filing an application for civil partnership, we are seeking to challenge this discriminatory law.

The two 25 years-old civil servants also decided to apply for a civil partnership because of their disdain for the ban on marriage for same-sex couples.
 Currently under U.K. law, same-sex couples are banned from civil marriage and heterosexual couples are banned from civil partnerships.