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23 August 2012Republican amendments to marriage equality rejected 17 Two Republican Party delegates had their suggestions on amending the party's official position on marriage equality rejected this week. -
23 August 2012Gay-Straight Alliance sue California school over sex abstinence drive 5 A united group of parents, doctors and the Gay-Straight Alliance Network are suing the Clovis Unified School District in California over a sex education drive championing abstinence until marriage. -
23 August 2012Northern Ireland: Retired Church of Ireland cleric backs calls for marriage equality to be legalised 10 A retired senior Church of Ireland cleric has called for marriage equality to be made legal. -
23 August 2012Bishop of Buckingham: ‘Church should get its head around gay relationships and be @Out4Marriage’ 68 The Bishop of Buckingham has become the most senior member of the Church of England to join the Out4Marriage campaign to introduce equal same-sex marriage in the UK. -
23 August 2012Arnold Schwarzenegger’s son joins up with Born This Way Foundation 12 The son of Arnold Schwarzenegger has joined the ranks of supporters of Lady Gaga’s BornThis Way Foundation. -
23 August 2012South African pastor blames gay men, lesbians and feminists for ‘culture of death’ 41 Pastor Errol Naidoo of South Africa’s Family Policy Institute has blamed the LGBT community for creating a "culture of death" that led, among other things, to the Marikana mine massacre. -
23 August 2012Psychological tests for trans pilots in US is abandoned owing to a one-woman campaign 5 Psychological testing for trans people who wish to become pilots has been abandoned after one woman sustained a three-year campaign. -
23 August 2012‘Too horny’ anti-gay US Christian fundamentalist convicted of masturbating by a children’s playground 46 US Christian fundamentalist Rev. -
23 August 2012Gay people biggest threat to Germany after euro crisis – says politician 84 A senior member of Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats Union (CDU) party has ignited a storm of controversy after saying the country’s future “lies in the hands of families [and] not in same-sex partnerships.” -
23 August 2012Hugh Hefner announces support for equal marriage 13 The publishing veteran is adamant that denying same-sex couples the right to marriage is a basic infringement of their human rights.
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Yvette Cooper: ‘Let us be loud and proud, celebrate, not discriminate, and pass equal marriage’+
US: Same-sex sponsorship amendment withdrawn from broad immigration bill+
Nick Clegg: Tories need to stop fighting over equal marriage and ‘get back to governing’1
Diane Abbott: ‘Momentous’ equal marriage bill will improve the lives of so many4
MPs who voted against the third reading of the equal marriage bill24
Maria Miller: The time for equal marriage has finally come8
Angela Eagle: I am so proud that the Commons passed the equal marriage bill in its third reading12
MPs pass same-sex marriage bill in final third reading46
Amendments to equal marriage bill on transgender rights withdrawn at request of Equality Minister13
Equal marriage referendum amendment fails to appear in House of Commons8
US church blames Oklahoma tornado on gay basketball player Jason Collins40
France: Far right activist commits suicide in Notre Dame following legalisation of equal marriage 72- MPs who voted against the third reading of the equal marriage bill 24
- MPs pass same-sex marriage bill in final third reading46
London: Gay sauna denies hosting 'bareback' sex parties 19
Lib Dem Deputy Leader Simon Hughes: 'Marriage should be between one man and one woman'49
London: Gay couple threatened with death in violent late night homophobic assault133
Birmingham: LGBT sports centre to be opened by naked charity calendar stars Warwick Rowers11- US: Same-sex sponsorship amendment withdrawn from broad immigration bill0
- Amendments to equal marriage bill on transgender rights withdrawn at request of Equality Minister13
Government considers watered down same-sex marriage bill to minimise Tory rebellion133-
London: Gay couple threatened with death in violent late night homophobic assault133
Tory MP Gerald Howarth: 'There are plenty in the aggressive homosexual community who want more than just same-sex marriage'94
Philip Hammond: 'No great demand for gay marriage and it's upsetting vast numbers of people'73-
France: Far right activist commits suicide in Notre Dame following legalisation of equal marriage72
Government to consider abolishing civil partnerships or opening up to straight couples68
Norman Tebbit: David Cameron has 'f**** things up' with his equal marriage bill61
Lib Dem MP Sarah Teather tells Catholic newspaper 'I never went into politics to tackle equal marriage'59
Tory MP David Burrowes: 'I'm not anti-gay; I'm just pro-marriage'57
Canada: 'Israeli apartheid' censorship row puts Toronto Pride funding in jeopardy52
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