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UK lawmakers approve marriage equality
British lawmakers voted in favour of legislation allowing gay marriage on Tuesday despite a split in Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative party. Members of parliament voted by 400 to 175 to approve the draft law allowing same-sex couples to marry in England and Wales. In a late intervention just two…
French same-sex marriage law clears first hurdle
France’s National Assembly on Saturday overwhelmingly approved the first and most important article of a controversial law that will allow gay couples to get married and adopt children. Deputies voted 249-97 in favour of article one of the draft legislation, which redefines marriage as being an agreement between two people…
Thousands gather in Paris to support same-sex marriage
Thousands of gay rights campaigners packed the streets of Paris on Sunday to call for the legalisation of gay marriage, two days before a key parliamentary debate on the hugely divisive issue. Waving rainbow flags and carrying banners reading “For equality now, against discrimination always”, the demonstrators gathered to promote…
Limbaugh: Liberals pushing LGBT rights to ‘normalize pedophilia’
Rush Limbaugh is warning that there is an “effort underway to normalize pedophilia” by liberals who are promoting marriage rights for LGBT people. During his Monday radio show, Limbaugh pointed to a recent National Review column which claimed that “the mainstream left wing UK newspaper” The Guardian was pushing an…
Pope launches media campaign to re-invigorate the Church
Pope Benedict XVI has galvanised Catholics at the close of 2012 to go on the offensive over key faith issues, forging new alliances and fighting secularism in the West with a media campaign. Damaging sex abuse scandals and growing opposition to the Church’s attitude toward gay marriage and women priests…
Two-thirds of Britons support same sex marriage
Nearly two-thirds of British people support plans to introduce gay marriage, according to a poll published on Thursday which showed growing backing for the reform. Some 62 percent of those questioned for the poll in the Guardian newspaper said same-sex couples should be allowed to marry, against 31 percent who…
Pope says future of mankind at stake over same sex marriage
Pope Benedict XVI on Friday weighed in on a heated debate over gay marriage, criticising new concepts of the traditional family and warning that in the fight for the family, mankind itself is at stake. “In the fight for the family, the very notion of being ? of what being…
Tens of thousands rally for same-sex marriage, adoption in France
Tens of thousands of demonstrators turned out in France on Sunday to show support for the government’s plans to legalise gay marriage and adoption. Organisers said 150,000 people gathered in Paris at the Place de la Bastille for the “demonstration for equality”. Police said 60,000 took part. They have called…
Rebel Anglican clergy ‘to bless gay marriages’
Rebel Church of England clergy will bless gay marriages carried out in other churches if Anglicans are exempted from a new law on same-sex marriage, some 150 vicars and campaigners said in a letter published on Sunday. Anglicans including ex-Bishop of Oxford Richard Harries and dozens of clergy wrote to…
Uruguayan congress moves to legalize same sex marriage
Uruguayan lawmakers approved a bill early Wednesday to legalize same-sex marriage and sent it on to the Senate. The Chamber of Deputies approved the measure after eight hours of debate, with 81 votes in favor out of 87 legislators present. The result was greeted with thunderous applause from around 200…
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