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Contents:

• MP-BY-MP: GAY MARRIAGE VOTE
• GAY MARRIAGE BILL: HOW DID YOUR MP VOTE? MAP
• MPS WHO VOTED AGAST GAY MARRIAGE: FULL LIST
• GAY MARRIAGE: MORE MALE TORI VOTED AGAST BILL THAN FEMALE LLEAGU
• CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
• MPS VOTE FAVOUR OF GAY MARRIAGE: POLICS LIVE BLOG
• GAY MARRIAGE: HOW MPS VOTED
• NAMIBIAN MPS BACK ANTI-GAY LAW SPE SUPREME COURT LG

MP-BY-MP: GAY MARRIAGE VOTE

How did your MP vote on the marriage (same sex upl) bill to legalise gay marriage?

GAY MARRIAGE BILL: HOW DID YOUR MP VOTE? MAP

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"The great thg about last night's vote is that two gay people who love each other will now be able to get married. "The prime mister spoke out after Francis M, the Cabet Office mister who is seen as the foundg father of Tory mornisatn, said the vote on gay marriage showed that many Conservativ were slow to accept social equal marriage bill was given an overwhelmg send readg by 400 vot to 175, a majory of 225. (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Imag)Californians will vote on a proposal to amend the state Constutn on the 2024 ballot to reaffirm gay marriage rights — a ut move that amid natnal anxiety after recent lgs by the nservative-leang U.

MPS WHO VOTED AGAST GAY MARRIAGE: FULL LIST

Although there is no current threat to the legaly of gay marriage, and Print Bin signed a bill safeguardg last year, the Democratic-domant state Legislature is seekg to remove language om California's Constutn that still f marriage as between a man and outdated state fn has been emed unenforceable and unnstutnal thanks to feral law, but LGBTQ advocy groups are askg voters to repeal and amend the California Constutn to stead explicly state that marriage is "a fundamental right. Gav Newsom was out of state, Senate lear Toni Atks (D-San Diego) signed bills to law on his behalf as the first out gay actg ernor. • Bra is on urse to adopt gay marriage after the Hoe of Commons voted to give the marriage (same sex upl) bill a send readg by a majory of 225.

The bill will still have to receive le-by-le scty the Commons, and then will have to get through the Lords, but the size of the majory, and the fact that the lears of all three ma parti are favour, suggt that is now evable that gay marriage will bee law. The legal differenc between civil partnerships and marriage are slight (see sectn one of this briefg document for more tail), but gay and lbian mpaigners have mand full equaly and now they are on urse to get . As the last piece of the legislative jigsaw providg equaly for gay people Bra, this is a tly historic step forward.

GAY MARRIAGE: MORE MALE TORI VOTED AGAST BILL THAN FEMALE LLEAGU

• David Cameron has failed to persua more than half of his MPs to support gay marriage. In the past there has been strong opposn the Lords to measur promotg gay equaly.

Here is the Prs Associatn's list of Tory MPs who voted agast the gay marriage bill at send readg.

Strong views exist on both sis but I believe MPs votg for gay people beg able to marry too, is a step forward for our untry.

CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT

All the vot related to the gay marriage bill are now over. • MPs have voted for the gay marriage bill by 400 vot to 175 - a majory of 225.

MPS VOTE FAVOUR OF GAY MARRIAGE: POLICS LIVE BLOG

• More than half of the Tory MPs who voted chose to oppose gay marriage.

Domic Grieve appears to have abstaed the gay marriage vote. Marriage is about love and mment, and should no longer be nied to people jt bee they are gay.

Tim Loughton, ex-Tory mister, says more Conservative MPs voted agast gay marriage than for. Campaigners monstrate for a "y" vote to allow gay marriage, as they prott outsi Parliament tonight.

GAY MARRIAGE: HOW MPS VOTED

"I don't want to draw too many grand parallels but is up there wh civil rights and the legalisatn of homosexualy this will be the moment when gay people n get married to each other and be regnised by the state- that's pretty fantastic". And Ia Stewart, the Conservative MP for Milton Keyn South, said that, as a gay man, he was a strong supporter of the bill. I often rell the day a few years ago when I fally plucked up the urage to tell my parents that I was gay.

She would go through the y lobby to show her support for gay rights. He said that he was personally grateful to all those who had mpaigned for gay rights over the last three s. Matthew Offord, the Conservative MP for Hendon, said all prev attempts to allow gay marriage have led to marriage beg fed.

She said Brish mocracy might not have survived if had not been for Alan Turg, the breaker who mted suici after beg persecuted bee of his homosexualy. Here's a Guardian terview wh supporters of the gay marriage bill. In my adolcence I began to realise that I was gay.

NAMIBIAN MPS BACK ANTI-GAY LAW SPE SUPREME COURT LG

And beg gay a small Welsh village really was like beg the only gay the village. Once the state beme volved civil marriage, he did not see how uld be fair to exclu gay people om marriage. And he said he objected to David Lammy implyg that those opposed to gay marriage were siar to those who opposed civil rights for blacks Ameri the 1950s.

MPs have been batg the bill for more than four hours now and the bate has nfirmed that the Conservative party is eply spl on the gay marriage bill. Cameron was not prent for the openg of the bate, which has seen Conservative MPs cricise the bill on the grounds that was not clud the Conservative manifto, that there is ltle public mand for , that will alter the tradnal fn of marriage and that creat a theoretil risk of church beg forced to nduct gay weddgs agast their will.

But Maria Miller, the culture secretary, said gay people had a right to get married.