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The results of the England & Wales Government consultation on equal marriage are now out. Some 53% of individual responses were in favour of same-sex marriages (with 46% against, and 1% don't know /. don't care / other).
Although the proposals did not envisage allowing religious groups to conduct marriages, the government has decided to go one step further and permit religious groups to "opt in" to being allowed to do so. The exceptions being the Church of England (the established Anglican church in England) and Church of Wales (which is Anglican, but not established). The new proposals try very hard to make it clear that no church or church member will ever be forced to conduct same-sex marriages if their conscience forbids it.
This is a massive step forward, and (to be honest) not one I'd thought to see in my lifetime.
Needless to say, the "anti's" are conducting a massive campaign to preserve marriage as purely a "one man, one woman" institution, and a number of Members of Parliament seem to be crumbling under the pressure from the religious right. My own MP is pro-civil-equal-marriage, but a bit iffy on religious ones ... so I've written to him this morning to put the case for religious gay marriages. The Society of Friends (Quakers) - and others, like Unitarians -have been actively pushing to be allowed to conduct same-sex marriages for some years, and I think it's really important to hammer home that some religious groups are very strongly in favour.
Anyone living in the UK might like to consider dropping a note to their MP ( www.writetothem.com is easy!) - it's an issue where small numbers of well-considered individual letters will have a far greater impact than petitions, form letters, or incoherent scrawls in green ink!
"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night devoid of stars." Martin Luther King
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UK Equal Marriage
By: NW on Wed, 12 December 2012 11:19 |
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Re: UK Equal Marriage
By: Kitzyma on Wed, 12 December 2012 19:09 |
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Re: UK Equal Marriage
By: timmy on Wed, 12 December 2012 23:43 |
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Re: UK Equal Marriage
By: NW on Thu, 13 December 2012 00:11 |
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Re: UK Equal Marriage
By: timmy on Thu, 13 December 2012 08:22 |
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Re: UK Equal Marriage
By: timmy on Thu, 13 December 2012 08:32 |
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Re: UK Equal Marriage
By: timmy on Tue, 18 December 2012 22:10 |
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Re: UK Equal Marriage
By: NW on Wed, 19 December 2012 09:25 |
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Marriage and religion
By: timmy on Wed, 19 December 2012 10:16 |
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Today's grass roots tories
By: timmy on Sun, 03 February 2013 23:19 |
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Re: Today's grass roots tories
By: NW on Mon, 04 February 2013 09:37 |
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Re: Today's grass roots tories
By: timmy on Mon, 04 February 2013 17:42 |
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Re: Today's grass roots tories
By: timmy on Mon, 11 February 2013 19:57 |
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Re: Today's grass roots tories
By: NW on Tue, 12 February 2013 11:32 |
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Re: Today's grass roots tories
By: timmy on Tue, 12 February 2013 18:40 |
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Rhetoric like this is hardly necessary at the best of times.
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So far so good
By: timmy on Wed, 06 February 2013 07:52 |
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Re: So far so good
By: timmy on Wed, 06 February 2013 12:06 |
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Re: So far so good
By: Camy on Wed, 06 February 2013 22:14 |
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Re: So far so good
By: NW on Wed, 06 February 2013 22:36 |
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