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Contents:

• MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
• US SUPREME COURT L GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL NATNWI
• THE GAY PEOPLE AGAST GAY MARRIAGE
• CHURCH OF ENGLAND BISHOPS REFE TO BACK GAY MARRIAGE
• FRANCE'S GAY MARRIAGE FIGHT
• CHURCH OF ENGLAND BACKS PLANS TO BLS GAY UPL
• GAY MARRIAGE
• MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
• MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE

MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE

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US SUPREME COURT L GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL NATNWI

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THE GAY PEOPLE AGAST GAY MARRIAGE

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.

) 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. 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.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND BISHOPS REFE TO BACK GAY MARRIAGE

Gordon Brown, Mr Cameron’s precsor, opposed gay marriage office bee was “timately bound up wh qutns of relig eedom”.

FRANCE'S GAY MARRIAGE FIGHT

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.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND BACKS PLANS TO BLS GAY UPL

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. Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love. There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia.

'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022. Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife.

The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage". Media ptn, The morng gay marriage me to the USThe US Supreme Court has led that same-sex marriage is a legal right across the Uned means the 14 stat wh bans on same-sex marriage will no longer be able to enforce them. Media ptn, Print Obama: "This lg will strengthen all our muni"However, Christian nservativ nmned the Arkansas ernor and printial ndidate Mike Huckabee lled "an out-of-ntrol act of unnstutnal, judicial tyranny" Kellie Fiedorek, a lawyer for an anti-gay marriage advocy group, said the cisn "ignored the voic of thoands of Amerins" Abbott, the ernor of Texas, a state where marriag licenc will now be issued to same-sex upl, said the jtic "have imposed on the entire untry their personal views on an issue that the Constutn and the Court's prev cisns rerve to the people of the stat" ptn, Emotn of wners and losers outsi Supreme CourtAt the scene - Pl Blake, BBC NewsLoud cheers epted outsi the urt after the lg was announced, and there were tears, hugs, and cheers of "USA USA USA!

GAY MARRIAGE

A sea of rabow flags overwhelmed the few anti-gay marriage activists who reacted disbelief, and the monstratn seemed to turn to a street party.

"It's my hope that gay marriage will soon be a thg of the past, and om this day forward will simply be 'marriage, '" an emotnal Mr Obergefell said outsi the source, APImage ptn, Coupl some parts of Texas were able to get marriedStat affected: Alabama, Arkansas, Geia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, most of Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oh, South Dakota, Tennsee and first state to allow same-sex marriage was Massachetts, which granted the right 2004. In recent years, a wave of legal lgs and a dramatic shift public opn have expand gay marriage the US.

MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE

After France's first same-sex marriage, and a vote the UK Parliament which puts England and Wal on urse for gay weddgs next summer, two US Supreme Court lgs expected soon uld hasten the advance of same-sex marriage across the Atlantic.

But some gay people rema opposed. "It's monstrably not the same as heterosexual marriage - the relig and social signifince of a gay weddg ceremony simply isn't the same. He don't f the mon stereotype of an opponent of gay like half of his iends, he do not believe that upl of the same genr should marry.

"I've been to some lovely gay weddgs but apg the tradnal heterosexual weddg is weird and I don't unrstand why anyone wants to do that. A send lg will be ma on the legaly of California's gay marriage while favourable lgs will spark celebratns among pro-marriage supporters across the US, some gay men and women will stead see as a victory for a patriarchal stutn that bears no historil relevance to lbians are opposed to marriage on femist grounds, says Cldia Card, a profsor of philosophy at the Universy of Wisns-Madison, bee they see as an stutn that serv the terts of men more than women. "Gay activists should stead put their energi to environmental issu like climate change, bee there's a chance to make a morally more fensible and more urgent difference.

MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE

"We are only one or two generatns away om children g om gay marriage that are also om broken hom, " he says. He believ a more important prry for the gay muny is the rise vlence agast transgenred people. "I'm not ncerned about whether I n get married but whether I will die the street at the hands of homophob.

"Support for gay marriage among Amerins general has risen above 50% acrdg to Gallup, but what the figure is among gay people is harr to quantify. A muny ma up of lns of people is bound to hold a range of views on any subject, but will surprise many that some of the people who on the face of stand to ga the most om gay marriage should oppose . And the ntrary views are not often the UK, Daily Mail lumnist Andrew Pierce says that for speakg out agast gay marriage the past, he has been attacked as a homophobe and Uncle Tom, spe a long history of champng gay strongly believ that civil partnerships - troduced 2005 to give same-sex upl equal legal rights - are enough.

" He thks there are more gay people agreement wh him than people may thk - at a dner party he hosted for 11 gay iends, only one was favour of marriage, one was uncid and the rt were agast, he says. In France, gay men and women joed the protts that preced and followed this year's troductn of same-sex marriage.