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Leading gay activist appointed to British House of Lords

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Pro-homosexual - anti marriage David Cameron's picture on the 10 Downing Street website (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) A co-founder of Stonewall, Britain’s powerful LGBT lobby group, and the longtime head of the European Parliament ’s Intergroup on LGBT Rights, was named to the House of Lords last week by Prime Minister David Cameron ’s coalition government. A spokesman for the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) told LifeSiteNews.com they are concerned that with the appointment, Michael “ Cashman will use his role in Britain’s ‘revising chamber’ to continue his campaigning against life and family.” Cashman, a retired Labor Party-affiliated MEP who represented the West Midlands in the European Parliament since 1999 and retired in May, has been a key player in the press for Britain to adopt the LGBT political agenda. He was one of the principal figures within Stonewall  pressuring the group  to adopt as a lead policy the demand to change the definitio...

UK: 58 cross-party MPs oppose same-sex ‘marriage’

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LONDON, December 17, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – 58 Members of Parliament, from all three main parties,  have announced  their opposition to the UK coalition government’s plans to institute “gay marriage”. In a letter to the government, the group said they are “united in supporting the institution of marriage defined in law as a union between a man and a woman”. They added that they “recognise the value of a loving and committed relationship,” and “respect civil partnership”. One leading pro-family organization, however, said it will take more than this to stop the determination of the Prime Minister, and that an all-out public rebellion will be required. A rebellion is brewing in David Cameron's Conservative Party, and some insiders worry that gay "marriage" could spell the demise of the party. The group of MPs noted that at the time of the last general election none of the three main parties included a policy of redefining marriage. “It was not contained in a...