<p><strong>Adam Wagner</strong>: Deputy lear of the Liberal Democrats' ments on gay marriage may be the end of a long and tortuo road for mpaigners</p>
Contents:
- CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
- WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS
- HAS THE TIME E FOR GAY MARRIAGE THE UK?
- A TIMELE OF GAY RIGHTS THE UK
CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
Gay or same-sex marriage is the maral unn of two people of the same sex. Support for gay marriage. Featherstone further sisted that was not a battle between gay rights and relig beliefs, argug:.
“I believe that if a uple love each other and want to m to a life together, they should have the optn of a civil marriage, irrpective of whether they are gay or straight, … are not prrisg gay rights, or tramplg over tradn; we are allowg a space for the two to exist si by si. Among the public, there was a growg nsens that prohibg gay marriage was discrimatory and unnstutnal by nature. Campaigners noted how prev discrimatn towards homosexuals rulted acute psychologil trma among same-sex upl and their fai.
Campaigners for same sex marriage also noted how relig opposn to homosexual marriage was largely amed by the assumptn that the sole purpose of marriage is procreatn. Opposn to gay marriage.
WHERE EUROPE STANDS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND CIVIL UNNS
It is further argued that civil and domtic partnerships grant gay upl the same protectns and rights nferred by marriage whout challengg the classil notn of marriage. ” Such views are often supported by Bible vers nmng homosexualy.
Former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey, scribed the proposal to legalise gay marriage as “one of the greatt polil power grabs history. Gay marriage around the world.
Gay marriage was officially legalised the USA 2015. Many have legalised civil partnerships among same-sex upl, while others prerve outright bans on homosexualy. Asia is the only populated ntent whose every untry outlaws gay marriage.
HAS THE TIME E FOR GAY MARRIAGE THE UK?
Male homosexual activy was illegal the UK until 1967.
In the aftermath of the Send World War, nvictns for homosexual offenc creased markedly, wh several high-profile figur beg prosecuted.
In 1954, the Departmental Commtee on Homosexual Offenc and Prostutn Great Bra, head by Sir John Wolfenn, was set up by the Conservative ernment. The rultant Wolfenn Report published 1957 nclud that crimalisatn of homosexualy was an impgement on civil liberty and that homosexual acts between nsentg adults should not be an offence.
A TIMELE OF GAY RIGHTS THE UK
It was not until a later that the Sexual Offenc Act 1967 crimalised homosexual activy between nsentg adults and set the age of homosexual nsent at 21, later rced to 18.