Rising up, Lisa by no means thought she would get married. As a homosexual girl, she didn’t even suppose a marriage was a chance. Then, in 2014, same-sex {couples} in England and Wales lastly gained the fitting to be legally married. Lisa and her associate, Tracey, had been among the many first to take action.
The Liberal Democrat politician Lynne Featherstone tells Hannah Moore why she championed marriage equality throughout the coalition authorities. She remembers with shock a number of the feedback that had been made about what the results of the change can be and explains opposition from spiritual critics of the invoice.
Ten years on, the Church of England nonetheless doesn’t carry out same-sex weddings, though it’ll enable blessings. Father Jarel Robinson-Brown explains why, as a homosexual Christian, he has discovered that so tough and what it has meant to maneuver to the Church of Wales, which is working in the direction of marriage equality.
Peter McGraith acquired married simply after midnight on the primary day that same-sex marriage turned authorized. He isn’t a fan of the establishment however says equal marriage was however an necessary step in the direction of full equality, whereas Lisa and Tracey replicate on how, to a youthful technology, the controversy about equal marriage appears to be like ‘daft’.
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