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  • 29 Apr 2013
    Failure to legislate for equal marriage may result in legal challenge

    Amnesty International has warned of a likely legal challenge if Northern Ireland is left as the only part of the UK without marriage rights for same-sex couples.

  • 16 Apr 2013
    Methodist church prioritises equality, inclusivity and truth about poverty

    The Methodist Council agreed further work on poverty, equality and inclusivity when it met at Uplands House in High Wycombe on 13 - 15 April.

  • 20 Mar 2013
    Consultation on the Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Bill
  • 25 Feb 2013
    Beyond Belief: Islam and homosexuality discussion

    As the Bill to allow same-sex marriage makes its way through the UK Parliament, BBC religion commentator and broadcaster Ernie Rea and guests on the Radio 4 'Beyond Belief' programme (4.30pm, Monday 25 February 2013) will be discuss whether homosexuality is compatible with Islam, and related questions.

  • 13 Feb 2013
    Only ‘legal miracle’ would force faith groups to marry same-sex couples

    “For the European Court of Human Rights to compel a religious body or its adherents to conduct a religious marriage of a same sex couple would require a legal miracle much greater than the parting of the Red Sea for the Children of Israel to cross from Egypt,” stated Lord Pannick QC.

  • 5 Feb 2013
    Quakers welcome move towards equal marriage

    Quakers in Britain have welcomed today’s vote (5 February) in favour of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill.

  • 5 Feb 2013
    Marriage, union or contract? The flawed ResPublica case against equality

    In the run-up to a parliamentary debate on 5 February 2013, the thinktank ResPublica has published a paper opposing equal marriage. The authors, Roger Scruton and Phillip Blond, both well-known in Conservative circles, appear to argue that allowing same-sex as well as opposite-sex couples to marry undermines Western civilisation, says Ekklesia associate Savitri Hensman. The paper makes some interesting points, but its case is ultimately flawed and unreliable on practical, theological, historical and legal grounds.

  • 27 Dec 2012
    Catholic attacks on marriage equality 'unseasonal', 'unfair' and 'inaccurate'

    Vitriolic attacks on marriage equality in Christmas sermons by senior Catholic figures in England and Wales have been criticised as unfair and inaccurate.

  • 17 Dec 2012
    Anglicans challenge C of E equal marriage 'lock'

    Dozens of clergy, including Lord Harries, the former Bishop of Oxford, have signed a letter to the Sunday Telegraph newspaper, coordinated by Changing Attitude, protesting the proposed ban on any Church of England solemnisation of same-sex marriages.

  • 15 Dec 2012
    Gender identity and marriage equality

    The invisibility and silence on the trans aspect of the government's equal marriage proposals highlights the reductionist arguments of some of the pressure groups and the way that the debate is more complex than they wish to acknowledge, says Sally Rush. This silence is symptomatic of the everyday marginalisation, invisibility and misunderstanding trans people face within the media and wider society. It needs to be broken, just as the discrimination currently enshrined in law needs to be removed.