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Scotland: Competing Campaigns For and Against Marriage Equality

Sunday, April 29th, 2012

Scotland Marriage Equality CampaignsA campaign group opposed to legalising gay marriage is planning to deliver leaflets to almost 300,000 homes ahead of this week’s council elections. Scotland for Marriage said it hoped to leaflet every house in Glasgow at a cost of 15,000 Pounds.

But a separate coalition of faith groups will launch their own campaign on Monday backing a change in the law.

The Scottish government has said it “tends towards the view” that same-sex marriages should be introduced. It is currently considering the responses it received to a public consultation on the issue, and has said faith groups and their celebrants should not be obliged to solemnise the ceremonies.

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Scotland, UK: Muslim Leaders Won’t Compromise on Marriage Equality

Wednesday, April 18th, 2012

Muslims, Scotland and Marriage EqualityA group of Muslim leaders in Scotland has said marriage equality would be an “attack” on the faith and recommended voters do not back candidates who favour such a move in upcoming local elections.

Scottish papers report a statement issued by the Council of Glasgow Imams which says the “main purpose of marriage is, of course, the procreation of children”.

Civil partnerships have “accommodated” gay couples and there is “no need for such unions to be blessed as marriages by faith institutions”, it continued.

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Scotland, UK: Marriage Equality Opponents Turn in 1,000 Signatures to Deputy First Minister

Sunday, April 15th, 2012

Scotland and Marriage EqualityMore than 1,000 Catholic constituents of the Deputy First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, have signed a petition calling for her to oppose changing the law to allow gay couples to marry.

Representatives from the Catholic Knights of St Columba collected signatures at five churches in the Ms Sturgeon’s constituency and handed the petition to her this morning.

More than 50,000 people responded to the Scottish Government’s consultation on introducing full marriage equality in the country. Ms Sturgeon had previously stated that the Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) Government was minded towards introducing equality.

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Scotland, UK: Catholic Cardinal to Relax Opposition to Civil Marriage Equality?

Saturday, March 31st, 2012

Catholic ChurchCardinal Keith Michael Patrick O’Brien is to make a sermon today where he is expected to announce a partial reversal in the Catholic Church’s opposition of civil marriage equality for gay couples. Although the Church will continue to oppose same sex marriages happening within religious institutions, it appears to concede that same sex civil marriages will be a reality regardless of its opposition.

The Cardinal, the leader of the Catholic Church in Scotland and the most senior Catholic in the UK, previously accused both the Scottish and British Governments’ proposals of representing a “grotesque subversion of a universally accepted human right.”

In a sermon later this Sunday, leaked to PinkNews.co.uk, he is expected to say: “Over recent weeks there has been much discussion of so-called ‘gay marriage,’ proposed by the both Scottish and British Governments under the guise of civil marriage equality. My attitude towards homosexuals and homosexuality remains firmly entrenched in the Catholic teaching, with which you are all familiar. We in the Church opposed the introduction of civil partnerships for gay couples even as some amongst us now say that we have supported them for many years.”

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Scotland, UK: Archbishop Warns Politicians on Marriage Equality Legalization

Monday, March 26th, 2012

Scottish Bishop on Marriage EqualityAn Archbishop has warned politicians they would be redefining “natural law” with plans to legalise gay marriage in Scotland. Mario Conti, Archbishop of Glasgow, delivered the strongly worded sermon at St Mary’s Cathedral in Edinburgh.

He said changes in the law were designed to “recreate society” and that any legislation to allow same-sex marriage will have negative consequences.

Archbishop Conti said: “Those voices are growing ever louder in our country, that attempted marginalisation is becoming ever more acute and we are witnessing the transformation of tolerance into a kind of tyranny in which religious views are the only ones which seem unworthy of respect and acceptance.

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Scotland: Opposition Leader Supports Marriage Equality

Tuesday, March 6th, 2012

Scotland Marriage EqualityLeader of the opposition Ed Miliband has backed the Scottish Equal Marriage campaign to lift the bans on gay marriage and straight civil partnership.

Labour’s leader signed the pledge and so joined the leaders of all the Scottish political parties in backing the move. The Scottish government’s consultation on gay marriage closed in December with 70,000 responses which will now be analysed.

Tom French, Policy Coordinator for the Equality Network, said: “We are delighted that the Leader of the Opposition has joined politicians from across the political spectrum to unite for Equal Marriage. We know that a majority of the public back full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, and we now hope that legislation will be brought forward to make equal marriage a reality in modern Britain.”

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Scotland: Thousands March in Edinburgh for Marriage Equality

Monday, February 20th, 2012

Edinburgh Marriage Equality RallyAn exuberant crowd attempted to woo First Minister Alex Salmond with a Valentine’s Day card reading, “Roses are white, thistles are blue, we believe in equal marriage and we hope the Scottish Government will too,” carried by campaigners at the Love Equally March in Edinburgh on Tuesday 14 February.

More than 1,000 equal marriage supporters from across the country gathered in Bristo Square before marching down George IV Bridge and the Royal Mile to finish with a rally outside the Scottish Parliament.

The march was organised in support of the Equal Marriage campaign, following the Scottish Government’s public consultation on equal marriage rights that ran between September and December 2011.

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Scotland May See Marriage Equality By Next Year

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

Scotland is likely to have full marriage equality by the end of 2013 at the latest, Tim Hopkins, Director of the Equality Network, told LGBTQ Nation at a reception in the Scottish Parliament on Tuesday evening.

About 400 people attended the reception after all opposition party leaders signed up to the Equal Marriage Pledge.

The Scottish government, led by the Scottish National Party, concluded public consultation on equal marriage on December 9. It was the government’s largest ever public consultation, with over 50,000 responses.

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Scotland: Three Parties Unite in Push for Marriage Equality

Tuesday, January 31st, 2012

THE clamour for the legalisation of same-sex marriage in Scotland has grown after the leaders of Holyrood’s opposition parties signed a pledge supporting the move.

Labour’s Johann Lamont, Ruth Davidson of the Conservatives, Willie Rennie of the Lib Dems and the Greens’ Patrick Harvie signed a pledge expressing their backing for homosexual weddings.

The four opposition leaders signed a declaration saying that they would “campaign to beat the ban on same sex marriage”.

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Scottish Government Puts Anti Marriage Equality Petition on Hold

Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

Scotland Marriage Equality Ban PetitionAn anti-marriage equality petition criticised by rights groups for its “outdated, inaccurate and homophobic” views has been put on hold by the Scottish Government until it publishes the results of its consultation.

The petition titled ‘Preserving Marriage’ was submitted to the Scottish Parliament by Amy King, and claims that same-sex couples should not have equal rights to marry because of “poor social outcomes for homosexual adults” including “higher rates of domestic violence, suicide, STDs, and mental illness.”

King writes: “Marriage should not be redefined for the whole of society given the tiny percentage of society actually affected by the issue.”

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