Where Europe stands on gay marriage and civil unns | Pew Rearch Center

Contents:

• FIRST COUPL WED AS GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL UK
• MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
• WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS
• A TIMELE OF GAY RIGHTS THE UK

FIRST COUPL WED AS GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL UK

Gay or same-sex marriage is the maral unn of two people of the same sex. Support for gay marriage. Featherstone further sisted that was not a battle between gay rights and relig beliefs, argug:.

“I believe that if a uple love each other and want to m to a life together, they should have the optn of a civil marriage, irrpective of whether they are gay or straight, … are not prrisg gay rights, or tramplg over tradn; we are allowg a space for the two to exist si by si.

Among the public, there was a growg nsens that prohibg gay marriage was discrimatory and unnstutnal by nature. Campaigners noted how prev discrimatn towards homosexuals rulted acute psychologil trma among same-sex upl and their fai. Campaigners for same sex marriage also noted how relig opposn to homosexual marriage was largely amed by the assumptn that the sole purpose of marriage is procreatn.

MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE

Opposn to gay marriage.

It is further argued that civil and domtic partnerships grant gay upl the same protectns and rights nferred by marriage whout challengg the classil notn of marriage.

” Such views are often supported by Bible vers nmng homosexualy. Former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey, scribed the proposal to legalise gay marriage as “one of the greatt polil power grabs history. Gay marriage around the world.

WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS

Gay marriage was officially legalised the USA 2015. Many have legalised civil partnerships among same-sex upl, while others prerve outright bans on homosexualy. Asia is the only populated ntent whose every untry outlaws gay marriage.

Male homosexual activy was illegal the UK until 1967. In the aftermath of the Send World War, nvictns for homosexual offenc creased markedly, wh several high-profile figur beg prosecuted. In 1954, the Departmental Commtee on Homosexual Offenc and Prostutn Great Bra, head by Sir John Wolfenn, was set up by the Conservative ernment.

A TIMELE OF GAY RIGHTS THE UK

The rultant Wolfenn Report published 1957 nclud that crimalisatn of homosexualy was an impgement on civil liberty and that homosexual acts between nsentg adults should not be an offence. It was not until a later that the Sexual Offenc Act 1967 crimalised homosexual activy between nsentg adults and set the age of homosexual nsent at 21, later rced to 18. There was no statutory age of nsent for lbian sex until the Sexual Offenc Amendment Act 2000 which equalised the age of nsent for homosexual and heterosexual men and women to 16 England, Wal and Stland.

In Northern Ireland, the equalised age of nsent was rced to 16 (for both heterosexual and homosexual relatnships) 2008.