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20 February 2013
Oxfordshire: ‘Bible-believing’ Tory councillor defects to UKIP over same-sex marriage 30 Oxfordshire local councillor, David Silvester has resigned from the Conservative Party because of David Cameron's decision to introduce same-sex marriage.
20 February 2013
Registrars should not have to marry gay couples says Tory MP David Burrowes 76 Tory MP David Burrowes, who last week accused PinkNews of “fomenting hostility” against the opponents of equal marriage, also believes registrars should not have to marry gay couples.
20 February 2013
US: Former first lady Laura Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney to star in equal marriage ads 4 A media campaign in support of same-sex marriage will feature President Barack Obama, ex-first lady Laura Bush and ex-Vice President Dick Cheney.
19 February 2013
US Head of Christian group suggests that same-sex parents should be ‘cast into the sea’ 45 The executive director of a Christian anti-gay group in the US has referred to a study which claimed that children of gay parents were worse off than those with straight parents, and quoted scripture which read that those doubting God should be "cast into the sea".
19 February 2013
Alaskan Republicans apologise for ‘inappropriate’ laughter over same-sex unions question 7 Leading Repiblicans of the Alaska House of Representatives have apologised for laughing when the issue of civil unions was raised at a caucus.
19 February 2013
US: Key player in Obama re-election campaign seeks to remove Ohio equal marriage ban + One of the key players in President Barack Obama's re-election campaign has joined efforts in the US state of Ohio to repeal its ban on equal marriage.
19 February 2013
Ireland: Kerry County Council votes in favour of marriage equality 3 Kerry County Council passed a motion in support of equal marriage on Monday, becoming the latest local authority in Ireland to vote in favour of marriage equality.
19 February 2013
Bahamas: Chief Justice predicts that equal marriage will be addressed in court soon 9 The Bahamian Chief Justice has said that he believes that courts will address the issue of equal marriage soon in the country.
19 February 2013
US: Texas lawmakers hope to repeal state ban on equal marriage 5 Lawmakers in the US state of Texas are hoping to repeal the state's ban on equal marriage, despite strong opposition.
18 February 2013
Peter Tatchell praises Muslim MPs for supporting equal marriage and blasts anti-gay fatwas 14 A small number of Islamic clerics, who have been issuing fatwas against the decision of several Muslim MPs to vote in favour of the same-sex marriage bill, have been criticised by Peter Tatchell.
18 February 2013
Video: Alaskan Republicans laugh when asked about plans for civil unions 9 A video has surfaced online, which appears to show members of the Alaskan House Caucus laughing when asked by a member of the press about its plans to legalise civil unions, before saying the issue "never came up" during discussions.
17 February 2013
France: Subway shop limits Valentine’s Day offer to straight couples only 39 The owner of a Subway franchise in the French city of Angers has received heavy criticism for refusing to offer a Valentine's Day special offer to gay couples.
17 February 2013
8-year-old writes to the Welsh Secretary to say she has been brought up ‘perfectly well’ by lesbians 87 An eight-year-old girl has written to the Welsh Secretary David Jones to tell him that she has been brought up "perfectly well" by her two lesbian mothers.
17 February 2013
Comment: Most letters to me, a Church of England bishop, are in favour of equal marriage 27 Alan Wilson, the Bishop of Buckingham, the first Church of England bishop to come Out4Marriage reveals that most of the correspondence that he receives is in favour of same-sex couples marrying.
16 February 2013
Out4Marriage: David Jones, our suitability to parent is not up for discussion in the equal marriage debate 23 Equal marriage campaign group Out4Marriage has responded to remarks made by the Tory Minister for Wales, who has come under heavy criticism after voicing his views on same-sex parenting.
15 February 2013
eHarmony founder: ‘Staff feared for their lives after we were ordered to put up a gay dating site’ 47 The CEO and founder of dating website eHarmony has said that same-sex marriage had "damaged" his business, and being forced to cater to gay people had resulted in so much anger from Christians he had to hire guards to protect his staff.
15 February 2013
Comment: Will the media stop the pity for homophobes? 50 As part of marking Tuesday’s Darwin Day, Adrian Tippetts celebrates the extinction of bad ideas in a PinkNews comment piece.
15 February 2013
Labour intensify pressure on Welsh Secretary David Jones over gay parenting remarks 28 Conservative Welsh Secretary David Jones is under renewed pressure to apologise for his controversial remarks about same-sex parenting – with Downing Street now commenting about the row.
15 February 2013
Associated Press reaffirms that gay married couples are ‘partners’ rather than ‘husbands’ and ‘wives’ in face of criticism 11 The Associated Press say that telling their reporters to call same-sex married couples "partners" instead of "husbands" or "wives" reflects existing practice, attracting criticism from LGBT groups.
15 February 2013
UK: Equality groups predict some gay married couples will have to fight for pension rights in court 2 Rights group Liberty has raised concerns that the same-sex marriage bill does not address inequalities in pensions between straight married couples and gay couples in civil partnerships.

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