Articles about Culture Secretary Maria Miller

17 June 2013
Maria Miller tables Public Order Act amendment protecting critics of equal marriage 43 Culture Secretary Maria Miller will propose that the Public Order Act be amended to protect critics of same-sex marriage in today's House of Lords committee on the same-sex marriage bill.
5 June 2013
Tory Faith Minister Baroness Warsi abstains in equal marriage Lords vote 51 Having previously indicated she would vote in favour, Baroness Warsi, refused to support the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill in last night’s House of Lords vote.
29 May 2013
Government tells press to ‘get on’ with reform following Lucy Meadows inquest 10 The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has commented on the inquest into the death of transgender teacher Lucy Meadows and says it is now time for the press industry “to get on with setting up an independent, self-regulatory body.”
28 May 2013
UK: Teacher Lucy Meadows was hounded by a transphobic press says coroner 20 The coroner investigating the death of transgender primary school teacher Lucy Meadows says the media should be ashamed of themselves.
21 May 2013
Maria Miller: The time for equal marriage has finally come 12 In her address to the Commons, shortly before MPs passed the Marriage (Same Sex Couples Bill), Culture Secretary and Equalities Minister, Maria Miller said “now is the time” for equal marriage.
17 May 2013
Peter Tatchell: ‘Civil partnership review unnecessary’ 18 A government review on civil partnerships, which could take place in five years time, is “unnecessary”, human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell has said.
16 May 2013
Government to consider abolishing civil partnerships or opening up to straight couples 68 Culture Secretary Maria Miller says a future government plans to review civil partnerships from 2018 – which could mean possibly extending them to heterosexuals – or abolishing them.
15 May 2013
Peter Tatchell: ‘I am hugely disappointed that Culture Secretary Maria Miller has ruled out straight civil partnerships’ 17 Peter Tatchell has criticised Culture Secretary and Minister for Equalities, Maria Miller, for ruling out civil partnerships for heterosexuals by saying “this is a hugely disappointing decision by the government”.
15 May 2013
Culture Secretary Maria Miller to allow military chaplains to opt out of providing same-sex marriages 18 Culture Secretary and Minister for Equalities, Maria Miller, says the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill will be amended to allow chaplains in hospitals, prisons, universities and the armed forces, to opt out of providing same-sex marriages.
12 February 2013
Labour MP Chris Bryant criticises Culture Secretary Maria Miller for saying marriage is the ‘gold standard’ 35 Labour MP Chris Bryant has taken offence after Culture Secretary Maria Miller said marriage was the “gold standard” – with the MP claiming it devalued his own civil partnership.
4 February 2013
David Cameron to defend equal marriage policy amid vociferous Tory revolt 16 David Cameron will reportedly speak out in favour of equal marriage later this evening, ahead of tomorrow’s first vote by MPs on the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill, according to the Times.

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