Four of Labour's most proment gay MPs have backed David Miliband for the party's learship. Chris Bryant, Angela Eagle, Ben Bradshaw and Stephen Twigg said today that Mr Miliband had "nsistently supported equaly every form".
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- GAY MARRIAGE BILL SURVIV AFTER ED MILIBAND VOT AGAST AMENDMENT
- DAVID MILIBAND CHANG HIS MD TO NOW SUPPORT FULL GAY MARRIAGE
- GAY LABOUR MPS BACK DAVID MILIBAND FOR LABOUR LEAR
GAY MARRIAGE BILL SURVIV AFTER ED MILIBAND VOT AGAST AMENDMENT
The gay marriage bill has been saved after Ed Miliband agreed at the last mute to vote agast an amendment to extend civil partnerships to heterosexual upl that had prompted ernment warngs that would rail the entire Labour lear, who had planned to absta a Commons vote on the amendment, agreed to change tack after the ernment chief whip Sir Gee Young sent a msage to his opposn unterparts that the Tory learship was facg move meant that the amendment, tabled by the anti-gay marriage Tory, 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 ernment had warned earlier the day that the Loughton amendment would have threatened the entire bill by addg £4bn to the sts and layg s implementatn. 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 ten years divisns among Tori was highlighted when Sir Gerald Howarth, knighted on the advice of the prime mister last year when he sacked him as a fence mister, warned of an "aggrsive homosexual muny" durg a clash wh a member of Cameron's policy board. Howarth ma the remarks when Margot Jam, a fellow Tory MP who is a civil partnership and who was recently appoted to the new Conservative policy board, said that the equal marriage legislatn would level the playg field after gay people suffered discrimatn the 1980s.
DAVID MILIBAND CHANG HIS MD TO NOW SUPPORT FULL GAY MARRIAGE
I believe that the pendulum is now swgg so far the other way and there are plenty the aggrsive homosexual muny who see this as but a steppg stone to somethg even further.
However, a blog on his mpaign webse now says is an “anomaly” that mted lbian and gay upl are not nsired married and that removg genr om marriage laws is the “next logil step” for gay equaly. Mr Miliband, the former foreign secretary, wrote: “It is an anomaly that gay upl – although they n ll each other hband or wife – n’t say they are married. This will mean gay upl will be able to scribe themselv as married.
GAY LABOUR MPS BACK DAVID MILIBAND FOR LABOUR LEAR
“We should not force church, mosqu and synagogu to officiate over gay marriag but equally we shouldn’t stop those who want to, ” he add.