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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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I have received this from a regualr correspondent of mine who is a UK Local Councillor (Elected representative):
Following a free vote The Civil Partnerships Bill has passed it's third reading (389 for with 47 against) in the Comons and been passed to the Lord's. It is thought to be extremely unlikely to fail.
If successful the Bill will receive Royal Assent before the end of the year and come into full effect twelve months later.
During the morning before the third reading the House of Commons successfully repeated a total of 43 various Acts that could possible have caused problems with the implementation and enforcement of the Bill. This included an old Mental Health Act classifying us a mental deviants, the Prisons Act so that gay inmates have the same rights as married inmates, an obscure reference in a Custom and Excise Act from the 19th century. They weren't satisfied with merely repealing clauses, they repealed entire Acts and follow up legislation associated with them. One Act which does deserve mention previously permitted religious organisations and churches to discriminate against gays in various ways if such discrimination was practiced in a building owned by a religious body. The Acts concerned with sexual discrimination are to be tightened up to clearly make it an offence to discriminate in word, print, or act. Several religious bodies have been instructed to tightly control their clerics in this regard.
It goes without saying that Ian Paisley and company were bordering on apoplexy. Some members risked censure by telling Paisley exactly what they thought of him.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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