Amnesty International seeks to force Homosexual Marriage
Amnesty International and a Northern Irish homosexualist campaign group, Rainbow Project , have announced plans to collaborate in an effort to create legalised gay “marriage” in the province through the courts. The two groups have vowed to bring a human rights legal action against the Northern Ireland government “on the basis of inferior treatment of same sex couples in Northern Ireland with regards to the right to marry and found a family.” As with the 1967 Abortion Act , Northern Ireland would be exempt from Westminster’s same-sex “marriage” bill that was passed in the House of Commons in February but is still in committee in the House of Lords . Patrick Corrigan, program director for Amnesty in Northern Ireland, told the Guardian newspaper that a lawsuit is “inevitable” because international law is “clear” that individual territories must provide marriage if the rest of the country does. So far, Sinn Féin, the Social Democratic and Labour Party , the Alliance and Gr