Labour sav David Cameron's gay marriage bill | Equal marriage | The Guardian

Contents:

• LABOUR SAV DAVID CAMERON'S GAY MARRIAGE BILL
• TEN REASONS TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE
• WHAT DO THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE?

LABOUR SAV DAVID CAMERON'S GAY MARRIAGE BILL

The ernment's gay marriage bill was saved after David Cameron was forced to rely on Ed Miliband to feat an attempt by his own MPs to rail the measure by tryg to extend civil partnerships to heterosexual 11th-hour plea to the Labour learship by the Tory chief whip Sir Gee Young, who warned that the ernment was danger of losg the vote, prompted a change of heart by Miliband, who had been planng to absta on the Labour move meant that the amendment, tabled by the anti-gay marriage Tory and former children's mister Tim Loughton, was feated by 375 to 70 vot, a majory of cisn by the Labour learship, which has gone om supportg the amendment on civil partnerships to rejectg wh the space of 24 hours, means that the marriage (same-sex upl) bill will now experience a safer journey through the prime mister, who attempted to reach out to his party by emailg a "personal note" to all members sayg that he would never work wh anyone who "sneered" at them, suffered the huiatn of havg to plead wh the Labour party for support.

All vot were classified as ee which meant that MPs uld vote acrdg to their one of the most dramatic moments the former fence mister, Sir Gerald Howarth, plaed to a lbian member of the prime mister's policy board about "the aggrsive homosexual muny". Howarth ma the remarks after Margot Jam, the MP for Stourbridge, said that the legislatn was part of recent chang that have created a level playg fields for everyone regardls of sexual prime mister me unr fire om the anti-gay marriage MP Tim Loughton after his amendment, which would have legalised civil partnerships for heterosexual upl, failed after the al between Labour and the Tori.

The erment had ially said would do this no later than five years after the passage of the bill, though the equali mister Maria Miller said the Labour amendment would make ltle practil al meant that the ernment amendment, altered by Labour, was approved by 391 to 57 vot, a majory of Miller dited that the review uld end up leadg to the aboln of civil partnerships once gay marriage be legal.

TEN REASONS TO SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE

But the prime mister voted ernment time to the gay marriage legislatn the belief that would help reach out to centre ground voters who may feel unfortable about supportg a party whose lear voted favour of the retentn of sectn 28 as recently as 10 years ago. No one knows what'll happen that and the Greens both thk a natnal vote would bee ugly and divisive and will unleash a lot of homophobic hate om the no mpaign. Here are 10 reasons to support gay marriage, and for other lears and cizens to follow Obama's lead:.

Homosexualy is a normal part of adult sexualy; gay men and lbians posss the same potential and sire for staed lovg and lastg relatnships as heterosexuals, cludg lovg and parentg children. Discrimatory marriage laws prive gay and lbian upl of over 1000 feral rights and benefs.

WHAT DO THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE?

Some of the reasons are taken om the posn statement of the Amerin Psychoanalytic Associatn on gay marriage approved 1997 and revised 2008. To read the entire statement and other Amerin psychoanalytic Associatn posn statements on gay rights and other social issu, click here. While the Bible do addrs homosexualy, do not explicly mentn gay marriage/same-sex marriage.