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Huge opposition mounts against gay ‘marriage’ in UK

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January 4, 2013 ( PJSaunders ) - With the coalition government about to publish their bill to legalise gay marriage in England and Wales there has been a huge increase in opposition to the measure over the last two months. Over 624,000 people have now signed the Coalition for Marriage (C4M)  petition  against the redefinition of marriage which simply reads as follows: ‘I support the legal definition of marriage which is the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others. I oppose any attempt to redefine it.’ The petition has overwhelmed that of the ‘ Campaign for equal Marriage ’ (C4EM) which has attracted only 64,000 signatures, just over 10% of C4M’s total. This underlines the growing suspicion that the push to legalise gay marriage is the concern of a small liberal elite which does not speak for the majority. C4EM  is claiming  that of 649 MPs in total, 305 (47%) support the proposal and 114 oppose it with 14 neutrals and 216 un

Ten myths about gay ‘marriage’

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October 18, 2012 ( PJSaunders ) - The Prime Minister David Cameron wants to redefine marriage to allow gay couples to marry. Thus far over 600,000 people have signed a petition launched by the Coalition for Marriage (C4M) against these plans which reads simply as follows: ‘I support the legal definition of marriage which is the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others. I oppose any attempt to redefine it.’ I have previously written on this issue and have published  24 articles  on all aspects of the debate. One of these, ‘ Ten reasons not to legalise same-sex marriage in Britain ’, gives an overview of the main issues. This week, however, the Coalition for Marriage has published a new leaflet titled ‘Ten reasons why the government is wrong to redefine marriage’ which is available in pdf format on the C4M website. It outlines ten myths about the redefinition of marriage . I have reproduced the text below. Ten reasons why t

UK homosexuals largely uninterested in gay ‘marriage’: poll

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English: DAVOS/SWITZERLAND, 29JAN10 - David Cameron, Leader of the Conservative Party, United Kingdom, speaks during the session 'Rethinking Government Assistance' in the Congress Centre of the Annual Meeting 2010 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 29, 2010. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) UNITED KINGDOM , June 12, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - Despite homosexual activists’ efforts to frame same-sex “marriage” as a pressing “gay rights” cause, a new poll finds that redefining marriage is a low priority for many homosexuals in the United Kingdom. The  poll , conducted by the UK-based polling firm ComRes at the request of Catholic Voices, found that just half of gays and lesbians in the UK consider it important to extend marriage to same-sex couples, while only 27% say they would marry their partner if they could. A quarter of respondents said there was no need to introduce gay “marriage,” because civil unions already provided all the same rights