Christian to be first MP to enter gay civil partnership
-10/03/06
Environment minister
Christian to be first MP to enter gay civil partnership
-10/03/06
Environment minister Ben Bradshaw has announced he is to become the first MP to enter into a civil partnership.
Mr Bradshaw is a practicing churchgoer and a member of the Christian Socialist Movement.
It was suggested that he might be the first MP to do so in 2004, before the law on civil partnerships was created.
A spokesman for the Exeter MP has now confirmed that Mr Bradshaw and his long-term partner, Neal Dalgleish, plan to register their civil partnership in June.
“To celebrate the occasion they’re giving a party for family and close friends at Ben’s sister’s home in Herefordshire,” the spokesman said.
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A change to the law introduced in December meant that homosexual couples were able for the first time to register their civil partnerships.
The new law gave lesbian and gay couples the right to form recognised partnerships and comparable rights to married couples on matters of tenancy, tax and inheritance.
The Bishops of Chelmsford, Manchester, Norwich, Oxford, Peterborough, St Albans, St Edmondsbury & Ipswich and Truro voted in favour of the measure when it was passed.
Some Christians have supported the move as a matter of civil rights, rather than as a sign of approval of lesbian and gay relationships. Many others opposed it.
Ben Bradshaw has been MP for Exeter since May 1997. He won his Exeter seat in the face of a strong opposition from Tory candidate Dr Adrian Rogers, now president of the Conservative Family Institute, who was reported as describing homosexuality as ‘sterile, disease-ridden and God-forsaken’.
In 2001 he became the first Labour MP to hold on to the seat.
He was appointed a junior Foreign Office Minister after the election and in the May 2002 reshuffle he was moved to become Deputy Leader of the House of Commons in June 2003 he was appointment Minister for Nature Conservation and Fisheries.
Mr Bradshaw is a member of several organisations including the Labour Campaign for Electoral Reform, SERA (the Labour Party’s environmental group), the Christian Socialist Movement, the Labour Campaign for Lesbian and Gay Rights, Stonewall and the Campaign for Real Ale.
Christian to be first MP to enter gay civil partnership
-10/03/06
Environment minister Ben Bradshaw has announced he is to become the first MP to enter into a civil partnership.
Mr Bradshaw is a practicing churchgoer and a member of the Christian Socialist Movement.
It was suggested that he might be the first MP to do so in 2004, before the law on civil partnerships was created.
A spokesman for the Exeter MP has now confirmed that Mr Bradshaw and his long-term partner, Neal Dalgleish, plan to register their civil partnership in June.
“To celebrate the occasion they’re giving a party for family and close friends at Ben’s sister’s home in Herefordshire,” the spokesman said.
Related Articles
A change to the law introduced in December meant that homosexual couples were able for the first time to register their civil partnerships.
The new law gave lesbian and gay couples the right to form recognised partnerships and comparable rights to married couples on matters of tenancy, tax and inheritance.
The Bishops of Chelmsford, Manchester, Norwich, Oxford, Peterborough, St Albans, St Edmondsbury & Ipswich and Truro voted in favour of the measure when it was passed.
Some Christians have supported the move as a matter of civil rights, rather than as a sign of approval of lesbian and gay relationships. Many others opposed it.
Ben Bradshaw has been MP for Exeter since May 1997. He won his Exeter seat in the face of a strong opposition from Tory candidate Dr Adrian Rogers, now president of the Conservative Family Institute, who was reported as describing homosexuality as ‘sterile, disease-ridden and God-forsaken’.
In 2001 he became the first Labour MP to hold on to the seat.
He was appointed a junior Foreign Office Minister after the election and in the May 2002 reshuffle he was moved to become Deputy Leader of the House of Commons in June 2003 he was appointment Minister for Nature Conservation and Fisheries.
Mr Bradshaw is a member of several organisations including the Labour Campaign for Electoral Reform, SERA (the Labour Party’s environmental group), the Christian Socialist Movement, the Labour Campaign for Lesbian and Gay Rights, Stonewall and the Campaign for Real Ale.