Day: August 31, 2016
Photo credit Photo By Blackcat (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons Two young Italian girls, both dressed as bride advocating for same-sex marriage at the 2010 Gay Pride in Rome
Finland’s Lutheran Bishops’ Synod: Church weddings only for hetero couples
Finland’s Evangelical Lutheran Church says it will only officiate at marriages for heterosexual couples.
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More than 180 same-sex couples marry in first months of 2016 in Ireland
More than 180 same-sex marriages were registered in the first three months of 2016, according to the CSO’s latest quarterly vital statistics – the first full set since new marriage legislation came into effect.
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Jeremy Corbyn calls for sanctions against Labour members engaging in homophobic abuse
The Labour leader said the abuse of Angela Eagle during her short lived leadership campaign was “absolutely and totally wrong”.
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MP calls for Police to reopen hate crime murder investigation from 1984
Jake Berry MP is calling for the Police to reopen their investigation into the unsolved murder of Drew Griffiths.