Read CNN’s Fast Facts on same-sex marriage and learn more about gay marriage legislatn around the world.
Contents:
- GAY MARRIAGE BILL EXPECTED TO PLETE PASSAGE THROUGH HOE OF COMMONS
- THE HOE PASS A BILL ON GAY MARRIAGE AND RELIG EEDOM. THERE’S HOPE FOR AMERI.
- GAY MARRIAGE
- LABOUR SAV DAVID CAMERON'S GAY MARRIAGE BILL
GAY MARRIAGE BILL EXPECTED TO PLETE PASSAGE THROUGH HOE OF COMMONS
The Hoe of Reprentativ on Tuday passed a bill to dify the right to gay marriage the wake of the Supreme Court's reversal of Roe v. Wa * gay marriage bill 2013 *
Jubilant gay rights mpaigners were celebratg the succsful passage of the marriage (same-sex upl) bill through the Hoe of Lords on Monday night – and vowg to take the fight for marriage equaly to Stland and Northern will bate amendments ma to the legislatn the upper hoe on Tuday eveng, but this is expected to be ltle more than a formaly and is unlikely to lay s progrs to law, wh royal assent wh the next few puty prime mister, Nick Clegg, told mpaigners celebratg outsi parliament that the new law would ensure that lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people felt "regnised and valued, not exclud" the gay Labour peer Lord Alli told fellow members of the send chamber – some of them sportg pk rnatns: "My life and many others will be better today than was yterday. "But opponents of gay marriage warned that the ernment-backed reform would "e back to be" the prime mister, David Cameron. "The bill survived a stormy passage through the Commons spe fierce opposn om dozens of Tory backbenchers, and then overme an attempt to "wreck" the Hoe of Lords last Walsh, mpaigns director of Out4Marriage, hailed the Lords' approval of the bill as "a momento ocsn lbian and gay equaly England and Wal, overg the last major hurdle on our path to full legislative equaly" add: "Wh this legislatn Bra sh a light as one of the most progrsive untri the world, and manag to balance both lbian and gay rights wh relig eedoms.
THE HOE PASS A BILL ON GAY MARRIAGE AND RELIG EEDOM. THERE’S HOPE FOR AMERI.
The road to full marriage equaly for same-sex upl the Uned Stat was paved wh setbacks and victori. The landmark 2015 Supreme Court se Obergefell v. Hodg ma gay marriage legal throughout the untry. * gay marriage bill 2013 *
"The Stonewall chief executive, Ben Summerskill, said: "It is impossible to exprs how much joy this historic step will brg to tens of thoands of gay people and their fai and iends. The bill's progrs through parliament shows that, at last, the majory of policians both ho unrstand the public's support for equaly – though 's also remd that gay people still have powerful opponents. And not every uple, gay or straight, feels that they need to get married to affirm their mment to each other.
GAY MARRIAGE
Comparg that evolutn to society's views of gays and lbians, Kennedy noted that for years, "a tthful claratn by same-sex upl of what was their hearts had to rema unspoken. Gay and lbian upl now have the right to marry, jt like anyone else.
LABOUR SAV DAVID CAMERON'S GAY MARRIAGE BILL
Together, they volve a dozen upl who challenged same-sex marriage bans Oh, Michigan, Kentucky and Tennsee — the only stat wh bans on marriage between gay and lbian upl that had been staed by a feral appeals urt.