Speaker John Berw: Gay upl should have right to Church of England weddgs | PkNews

Contents:

• SPEAKER JOHN BERW 'SURPRISED AND LIGHTED' AT 'GAY OSR' NOMATN
• GUY ADAMS: THE RACIST AND GAY HATE PAST OF SPEAKER JOHN BERW
• STRONG SE FOR GAY MARRIAG, ADMS BERW
• JOHN BERW ACCINTALLY 'OUTS' STRAIGHT RUGBY STAR BEN COHEN AS GAY
• JOHN BERW PRAIS GAY EQUALY PROGRS DURG QUEEN’S REIGN
• COMMONWEALTH UNTRI MT SUPPORT GAY RIGHTS, URG SPEAKER JOHN BERW
• SPEAKER JOHN BERW: GAY UPL SHOULD HAVE RIGHT TO CHURCH OF ENGLAND WEDDGS

SPEAKER JOHN BERW 'SURPRISED AND LIGHTED' AT 'GAY OSR' NOMATN

He beme a champn of gay rights and said a clampdown on nnabis smokers would be "absurd" enterg the shadow bet, he lled for Conservative MPs to be banned om membership of the Monday tablished himself as one of the Conservative Party's most outspoken social liberals, he had to fend off persistent mours he was poised to fect to his electn as Speaker was more popular on the Labour bench than the Conservative 2015, wh Labour's support, he survived after a proposed le change that was seen as an attempt to ot him by the Tory ernment.

The same year as his marriage, Berw rigned om the ont bench after rebellg to vote for Labour plans to allow unmarried gay and heterosexual upl to adopt children. He told his nstuency associatn his new year’s msage that year that voters saw the Tori as “racist, sexist, homophobic and anti-youth” praise John Berw for his service as Speaker – vio Berw was elected as Speaker of the Hoe of Commons 2009 and quickly provoked accatns of anti-Tory bias. Speaker John Berw has admted he is "surprised" to fd himself is the nng for a gong at this year's 'Gay Osrs' Tory - who is normally tasked wh keepg policians check the Commons - has been nomated by the rears of 'Out the Cy' and 'G3' magaz to bag an award for champng the rights of the LGBT has been shortlisted the 'straight ally of the year' tegory ahead of a London ceremony April, which will see him battle wh gay and bisexual stars cludg Olympic diver Tom Daley.

GUY ADAMS: THE RACIST AND GAY HATE PAST OF SPEAKER JOHN BERW

The young Berw mpaigned wh neo-Nazis who endorsed an odly racist policy for black and Asian Brons to be ‘repatriated’ to their anctral, for much of the 1980s and 1990s, he was a hero of the far-Right and ma outspoken attacks on femism and gay rights. ‘He was always attackg Left-wgers, gays and femists.

STRONG SE FOR GAY MARRIAG, ADMS BERW

In 1987, he kicked up a fs over a scheme to put gay lerature children’s hom and librari, tellg reporters he’d wrten to Neil Knock, then Labour lear, askg him to tervene to prevent ‘this sister and evil proposal’. Soon after, he began his polil U-turn, mpaigng for liberal issu such as racial equaly, while seekg to gloss over his Right-wg part of the then Tory lear Ia Dunn Smh’s team, he clashed wh his boss over Dunn Smh’s refal to support gay adoptn. There is a "very powerful se" for troducg gay marriage, shadow bet mister John Berw told the Conservative nference Berw, a proment Tory rightwger, said there were tellectual and ethil arguments for the civil registratn of same-sex the shadow work and pensns mister said sectn 28 - which bans the promotn of homosexualy schools - was a "lm tt" of the party's willgns to Berw said the Tori had no plans to troduce civil registratn, later addg that he was not argug they speakg on the ge of the Tory nference, he add a "strong se n be ma".

"Gay marriage, as a term, emotnalis the whole issue, " Mr Berw said. However, Mr Clarke said he would ntue to vote to keep sectn while llg for equal regnn for unmarried upl, he said he did not back gay Clarke dismissed sectn 28 as an "obscure, unread and unapplied piece of legislatn" and said should not be abolished.

JOHN BERW ACCINTALLY 'OUTS' STRAIGHT RUGBY STAR BEN COHEN AS GAY

"You do upset people the other way if you talk about advotg homosexualy schools, " he said. "I'm not favour of advotg homosexualy schools. "Mr Berw said no one wanted to expose pupils to unsuable material on eher gay or straight sex.

It's one thg to accintally out someone for beg gay when they don't want to be. It's another to do when the person isn't even gay the first place.

JOHN BERW PRAIS GAY EQUALY PROGRS DURG QUEEN’S REIGN

Commons Speaker John Berw, who is a firm supporter of gay rights, did jt that on Wednday eveng when troducg gby star Ben Cohen at an event hosted by 'ParliOut', parliament's group for gay staff. Acrdg to the Pk News, Berw praised Ben Cohen for his work to tackle homophobia sport and praised him for beg "openly gay" the sound of lghter Cohen is reported to have shouted: "Don't tell my wife".

COMMONWEALTH UNTRI MT SUPPORT GAY RIGHTS, URG SPEAKER JOHN BERW

Realisg his mistake Berw quickly backtracked, addg: "No he’s not openly gay.

SPEAKER JOHN BERW: GAY UPL SHOULD HAVE RIGHT TO CHURCH OF ENGLAND WEDDGS

"Cohen was attendg the event to show his support for mpaigns agast homophobia gby player Gareth Thomas however did e out December 2009.