Coverage of the Equality Bill in the media
An amendment to the Equality Bill would remove the bar on religious premises being used for civil partnerships. Quaker support for the amendment is reported here:
The Times Monday 23 February: Let gays “marry” in church, bishops urge:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article7037062.ece
and Equal before God
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article7036936.ece
Daily Telegraph Thursday 18 February:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/7257710/Government-should-not-stand-in-way-of-homosexuals-marrying-in-church-say-Tories.html
Green Party support:
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/11337
The Jewish Chronicle 23 February
http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/28550/liberal-judaism-lobbies-lords-gay-marriage-synagogue
BBC website Tuesday 23 February: Clerics call for gay ceremonies at religious venues
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8530667.stm
The Guardian online Comment is free 24 February 2010: Bishops shouldn’t block equality
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/feb/23/civil-partnerships-church-equality
Ruth Gledhill’s blog 23 February:
http://timescolumns.typepad.com/gledhill/2010/02/gays-could-soon-marry-in-churches-synagogues.html#more
Pink News:
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/02/16/lib-dem-leader-nick-clegg-answers-your-questions/
Thinking Anglicans:
http://www.thinkinganglicans.org.uk/archives/004258.html
and
http://www.thinkinganglicans.org.uk/archives/004257.html
