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2 July 2012
Tory MP’s bill calls for partners of gay knights to receive honorary titles 64 A Private Member's Bill is to be tabled at the House of Commons this week calling for honorary titles to be bestowed on the partners of gay knights and peers.
28 June 2012
Video: Policing minister Nick Herbert says difference between civil partnership and marriage ‘matters’ 20 Nick Herbert, the Minister for Policing and Criminal Justice, has become the latest member of the government to join the Out4Marriage campaign to support efforts to legalise gay marriages.
12 June 2012
Tory MP calls for equal marriage consultation to be started again 42 A Conservative MP in Kent has called on the Home Office to start its public consultation marriage equality between gay and straight couples again with a more rigorous system.
11 June 2012
Liam Fox MP undecided on ‘elite’ issue of marriage for gay couples 69 The former Defence Secretary Liam Fox, who resigned last year over the questioned raised about his relationship with lobbyist Adam Werrity, has described equal marriage rights as an issue prioritised by the 'metropolitan elite'.
28 May 2012
Tory MP who said equal access for gays would ‘mangle’ marriage raises consummation concerns 139 A Catholic Tory MP has voiced concern over the government's plans to allow gay couples to marry, suggesting the law on consummation may be affected to the detriment of straight couples.
28 May 2012
Video: ConservativeHome editor Tim Montgomerie comes @Out4Marriage 25 The editor of the influential ConservativeHome blog has added his support to the Out4Marriage campaign, recording a video in favour of allow gay couples an equal right to marriage.
18 May 2012
Chris Bryant: Tory MP’s response to equal marriage enquiry ‘as cruel as it was offensive’ 129 A Conservative MP's response to an enquiry about equal marriage has been called 'cruel and offensive' in its treatment of couples who are unable to have children by gay Labour MP Chris Bryant and 'truly shocking' by a constituent.
17 May 2012
Tory MP who called gay marriage ‘completely nuts’ ejected from two Parliamentary committees 44 Peter Bone, one of the most outspoken Conservative party critics of the Government's plans for same sex marriage equality, has lost his place on two influential House of Commons committees.
9 May 2012
Tory MP issues fresh polygamy warning over marriage equality for gays 312 A Conservative MP for Yorkshire has issued a fresh warning that polygamy could be the result of marriage equality for gays.
8 May 2012
Shadow home secretary: ‘Ludicrous’ to blame equal marriage plans for Tory losses 113 Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, has said it is 'utterly ludicrous' to blame the Coalition government's plans to allow gay couples an equal right to civil marriage for the Conservative party's losses at local elections last week.
4 May 2012
Defence minister: Equal marriage contributed to Tory local election losses 155 Gerald Howarth, a junior defence minister who has spoken out against equal rights for gay couples in the armed forces and marriage equality generally says the government's proposals to allow gay and straight couples equal access to civil marriage were a contributing factor in election losses last night.
30 April 2012
Audio: Boris Johnson plans to unveil LGBT manifesto ‘to an amazed world’ 31 Incumbent Mayor of London Boris Johnson has reaffirmed his support of marriage equality for gay couples and said he will release his LGBT manifesto ahead of London's elections this week to an "amazed world".
25 April 2012
Lynne Featherstone: Churches will not be sued under gay civil marriage proposals 43 Equalities Minister Lynne Featherstone has pledged there will be 'no risk of successful legal challenge' against religious bodies who are unable to marry gay couples as a result of the government's gay civil marriage proposals.
20 April 2012
Tory MP tells constituent marriage equality could mean ‘polygamy and child marriages’ 430 Lincoln's Conservative MP has denied a constituent's request for him to support marriage equality for gay and straight couples and told her that in his opinion, gays have 'exhausted the cause of equal rights'.
20 April 2012
Row after Tory MEPs abstain from pro-LGBT amendment vote 55 Labour MEPs have criticised Tories this week for abstaining from a vote at the European Parliament on an amendment strengthening LGBT protections, with Tories accusing them of 'grandstanding' in response.
23 March 2012
Kent MP: If gays marry, will Shakespeare be in danger? 168 A twice-divorced Kent MP has questioned whether allowing gay couples to marry will result in Shakespeare being rewritten to redact gender-specific words like 'husband' and 'wife'.
16 March 2012
Gay Tories challenge MP’s ‘no mandate for equal marriage’ claim 26 Conservative group LGBTory has challenged the assertion by a party MP, who recently branded equal marriage 'completely nuts', that the government has no mandate to allow equal marriage rights for gays.
7 March 2012
Francis Maude: Tories must back equal marriage or risk becoming ‘unelectable’ 111 Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude is expected to warn today that the Tories must modernise and approve measures including equal marriage or risk being seen as 'unacceptable and unelectable'.
7 March 2012
UKIP: Marriage belongs to religion, not government 110 UKIP has accused the government of 'picking a fight' with religious people in Britain over plans for equal civil marriage saying the issue is 'in the domain of the church and other faiths'.
4 March 2012
UK Catholic cardinal: Gay marriage is ‘a grotesque madness proposed by a disingenuous government’ 178 Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, the most senior Catholic in Scotland, Cardinal Keith Michael Patrick O'Brien, has said that gay marriage is a "grotesque subversion of a universally accepted human right".

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