Which uk parties support gay marriage
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A person enters a polling station in Rickmansworth, Britain, May 2, 2024. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett
What’s the context?
What are Britain's two main parties promising to do on LGBTQ+ rights if they win the election next month?
- Labour commits to conversion therapy ban but no self-ID
- Conservatives strategy to rewrite Equality Act
- Activists say protection for LGBTQ+ children is key
LONDON - As Britain prepares to go to the polls on July 4, the nation's two main parties have released their manifestos, with Homosexual issues and policies featuring in both.
Key topics - such as gender-affirming look after, conversion therapy and single-sex spaces - have been major points of discussion since Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced an election would take place.
The rivalry Labour Party, led by Keir Starmer, is currently head in opinion polls, with the governing Conservative Party trailing behind after 14 years in power.
Here's what both parties are proposing for LGBTQ+ people if they win.
What execute the parties' manifestos say?
The Conservative Party pledges to modify the 2010 Equality Act so that it only bids protection on the basis of organic sex.
Half of Conservative party members oppose queer marriage and crave the return of the death penalty
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- More than half of Conservative Party members oppose gay marriage and support the death penalty, academic research finds.
- There is a significant gulf between Conservative Party members and those of other parties on social issues.
- Conservatives "are something of a breed apart," according to Professor Tim Bale.
LONDON — Conservative Party members are a "breed apart" from the loyal followers of other UK political parties on issues like the death penalty, same-sex marriage, and education, according to new research.
Academics at the Queen Mary University of London have create that a card-carrying Tory is much more likely to hold authoritarian views compared to Labour members and those of the Liberal Democrats.
The polling, published on Thursday, is the biggest ever into the views of British political party members. It is based on responses from over 1,000 memb
Same-sex marriage legislation shows that policy can direct public opinion
Gay marriage legislation, passed 10 years ago today, was a masterclass in building consensus for a contentious policy.
On 17 July 2013, the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Execute 2013 gained royal assent, granting same-sex couples in England and Wales the right to marry. It was a landmark moment for LGBT+ rights.
The journey to passing legislation on same-sex marriage was long and at times contentious. Labour had made important strides in the early 2000s – revoking Section 28 that had prohibited local authorities from “promoting homosexuality” and introducing civil partnerships that gave same-sex couples comparable legal rights to married couples – but Gordon Brown as prime minister opposed same-sex marriage on the grounds that marriage was “intimately bound up with questions of religious freedom”.14
But even once Brown left office in 2010 brand-new legislation looked far from inevitable. None of the main parties’ election manifestos that year had involved to introducing same-sex marriage. Despite LGBT+ rights groups being united in their support, galvanised by debates happening in the US ove
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Proposing change: How queer marriage became a government success story
Same-sex marriages are now celebrated all over the UK. They are a core part of the UK’s customs, communities and institutions.
Passing legislation to introduce same-sex marriage was a landmark moment – for many couples personally, but also for the wider lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, trans plus (LGBT+) community. It marked an important step in addressing the UK’s past legal discrimination against same-sex couples, building on the achievements of a long history of campaigners who worked to expand LGBT+ rights.
This case study looks at how the government passed the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013. It examines the policy’s journey, from a campaign aim of LGBT+ rights groups, to a contested issue in the 2010 general election, to official government policy, and finally to legislation that introduced homosexual marriage rights in England and Wales, while accommodating many of the concerns of those who remained opposed.
It draws on a policy reunion at the Institute for Government held in March 2023, which brought together officials, ministers, LGBT+ rights campaigners and representatives from