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

Contents:

• WHEN DID BEG GAY BEE LEGAL THE UK?
• FIRST COUPL WED AS GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL UK
• WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS

WHEN DID BEG GAY BEE LEGAL THE UK?

The rultg aln ernment ially said would reta a ban 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. (Stland and Northern Ireland passed separate laws.) Pollg June found that more than three-quarters of Brons now support gay marriage, up om jt over half 2012.

FIRST COUPL WED AS GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL UK

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.

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.

WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS

But has led to a of eccliastil disrd as liberal members of the church argue for the right to perform or partake gay marriag. 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.