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Contents:

• GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL BRA – PICTUR
• MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
• 'NEW CULTURE WAR': NORTHERN IRELAND'S LGBT+ MUNY FIGHTS FOR GAY MARRIAGE
• WHAT DO THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE?

GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL BRA – PICTUR

Same-sex marriage beme legal jt after midnight on Friday, markg the culmatn of a long mpaign to end a distctn many Brish gay upl say ma them feel like send class cizens. The rultg aln ernment ially said would reta a ban on gay marriage.

MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE

As of 2020, the most recent year for which there is data, more than 42, 000 gay upl England and Wal had tied the knot.

) Pollg June found that more than three-quarters of Brons now support gay marriage, up om jt over half 2012. It end Sectn 28, which prevented schools and lol thori om “promotg homosexualy” and troduced civil partnerships. “I don’t support gay marriage spe beg a Conservative.

'NEW CULTURE WAR': NORTHERN IRELAND'S LGBT+ MUNY FIGHTS FOR GAY MARRIAGE

Gay marriag beme not an abstract threat but somethg unrtaken by iends, lleagu, neighbours. Almost half of Brons now say they know a married gay uple.

Gordon Brown, Mr Cameron’s precsor, opposed gay marriage office bee was “timately bound up wh qutns of relig eedom”. Though Bra was not the first to legalise , 19 other untri have sce given gay marriage their blsg. But has led to a of eccliastil disrd as liberal members of the church argue for the right to perform or partake gay marriag.

WHAT DO THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE?

A group of mps led by Ben Bradshaw, a gay Anglin, is lookg at ways to amend the legislatn to allow willg prits and parish to take part, which they argue uld also help boost dwdlg numbers the aisl. BELFAST (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - Hidn away up several flights of stairs the center of Belfast, Northern Ireland, teenagers, many of them wh shocks of red, blue and rabow hair, relaxed and joked wh one the LGBT+ youth group, n by chary Cara-Friend, they felt themselv to be among iends, ee to be outsi, the young people said they don’t always feel wele a place where many policians make homophobic ments and same-sex marriage is still banned, spe beg legalized the rt of the Uned Kgdom 2013.

“Gay marriage isn’t even a thg here, ” said Ash, a 16-year-old who intifi as non-bary and pansexual. ”Northern Ireland is erned separately om the rt of the Uned Kgdom on many issu, a legacy of the domtic nflict between “republin” and “unnist” groups over whether to une wh the Republic of Ireland to the Democratic Unnist Party (DUP), one of the most socially nservative Europe, has repeatedly blocked gay marriage, spe support for om more than two-thirds of Northern Irish adults, acrdg to a 2015 poll by Ipsos year, the Northern Ireland Assembly voted to legalize same-sex weddgs, but the DUP blocked g a veto tend to protect mory Brish ernment has refed to impose gay marriage on the regn, which had a populatn of 1.

’”Nairn, who is himself gay, said was “crazy” same-sex marriage was not yet legal, an terview at the Unn Street Bar Belfast’s small gay district, where he ed to work, often drsed as a drag queen lled year, two legal challeng to the same-sex marriage ban were heard Northern Ireland’s Court of Appeal, the regn’s hight appeals urt, after beg rejected by s High judgments are expected the next few months, but activists said they will appeal them to the Uned Kgdom’s Supreme Court if same-sex marriage isn’t also expect Northern Ireland’s attorney general to appeal if the lg go the other way. But gay marriage is now legal the south of Ireland, after a referendum 10 years ago, no Northern Irish party supported LGBT+ rights, Jefey Dudgeon, a Belfast cy uncillor for the Ulster Unnist Party told the Thomson Rters Foundatn an terview the imposg Victorian-era Cy Hall. “Every time ’s been a stggle and ’s aga bee of volutn, ” said Dudgeon, one of the platiffs a 1981 European Court of Human Rights se that legalized gay sex Northern Ireland, 14 years after the rt of the Uned recent years, LGBT+ rights have bee a dividg issue Northern Irish Fe now supports LGBT+ rights, spe s Catholic herage.