Northern Irish Assembly rejects ‘gay marriage’ motion
Latest New Member in East Belfast Welcomed (Photo credit: DUP Photos ) BELFAST, October 10 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Legislative Assembly of Northern Ireland rejected on October 1 a move to install “gay marriage” in the province. The private member’s motion was put forward by the far-left Green Party and republican party Sinn Fein. The Green’s only representative in Stormont, Steven Agnew , said it would be message to homosexuals that “we see their love as equal”. The motion was soundly defeated by the dominant Democratic Unionists (DUP), only three of whose 45 members voted in favour. 45 of the total of 95 Members, 47.37 per cent, voted in favour, including 37 Nationalists, 3 DUP, and 5 “others” according to the government’s information. The motion could not have made a change in the marriage law that has to be ratified in the province by Westminster. But the BBC and other observers noted that had it passed, it would have increased pressure in Stormont to accept a c