Two significant events this week in the campaign for equal LGBT rights…
First, as we reported this week, Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg asked that the ‘Pride flag’ be flown from Whitehall to symbolise Government support for Saturday’s rally in London. As The Sun’s political editor Tom Newton-Dunn tweeted:
For the 1st time ever in Whitehall, Rainbow flag is being flown from the Cabinet Office today to mark gay pride; Clegg’s order. Good.
… in an interview with the London Evening Standard to mark the World Pride event, Mr Clegg said: “This is a personal view at the moment, but I think that in exactly the same way that we shouldn’t force any church to conduct gay marriage, we shouldn’t stop any church that wants to conduct gay marriage. I don’t see why two individuals who love each other and want to show commitment to each other should not be able to do so in a way that is socially recognised as being marriage.”
A couple of weeks ago, Nick recorded this message — described by Attitude as “a really passionate, well-articulated support for equal marriage” — for Out for Marriage:
Way back in February 2010, Nick Clegg used the phrase “Love is same, straight or gay” in an interview with Pink News in which he expressed his support for equal marriage. That phrase has become a slogan of the Out4Marriage campaign.
He has reiterated that full support on many occasions since.
Today, Out4Marriage released a video he made for them explaining why he supports the right of all couples who love each other to marry as “a fundamental right in an equal society”.
Nell As an autistic person, I am glad to see this hypocrisy being spoke about, and called out for the patriarchal nonsense that it is.
Your analogy of the same all...
Simon R @Jude: That's a false comparison. The fact that gender-critical views are protected doesn't stop you from accessing medical treatment. It simply means that I c...
Joseph Bourke The 2010 US Supreme court ruling in the Citizens United case has seen spending on federal elections balloon tenfold over the past 15 years from around $550 mill...
Nigel Jones Some good comments about equality and beliefs, but freedom of expression is also an issue and there are a few people even within this party who want to silence...
Jenny Barnes Unfortunately there won't be any growth. We need to make things better without it....
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