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LGBTI Citizens Worldwide — Motion to Take Note (17 Sep 2015)

Lord Cashman: ...from the cold, humiliating history of slavery and those who used culture, religion and market forces to defend it? I believe that our ability to imagine separates us from other species. As a gay man, I must imagine, “What if that were me?”. What if I were born in one of those 78 countries that criminalise people because of who they choose to love consensually? What if I were born in...

Scottish Parliament: Human Rights Act 1998 (Amnesty International Campaign) ( 8 Sep 2015)

Marco Biagi: ...disclose their sources; disabled people, including people with mental health problems in care or detention, who can expect to receive treatment and conditions to meet their specific needs; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people, who have used human rights to overcome discrimination; and the elderly couple who after 65 years of marriage were going to be forced to live apart...

Freedom of Religion and Belief — Motion to Take Note (16 Jul 2015)

Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood: ...of the rights and freedoms of others”. It is generally the protection of the rights and freedoms of others and, above all, the increasing recognition of the rights of others, in particular gays and lesbians, not to be discriminated against that has led to much of the litigation under this provision. Take the Supreme Court case of Bull and Bull—touched on recently, if perhaps a little...

Business of the House (16 Jul 2015)

Conor McGinn: ...Ayrshire to serve as best man for my friend Alan Gemmell, who is marrying his partner Damien Stirk. Does the Leader of the House share my pride in the fact that Britain has led the way on equal marriage, and will he provide time for a debate so that the House can show solidarity with lesbian and gay people throughout the world who are denied this and many other rights and freedom?

Bills Presented — Bat Habitats Regulation Bill: Clause 31 — Crown Estate ( 6 Jul 2015)

Stewart McDonald: ...choose—I accept that hon. Members have not expressly said that they want to do that—would be misplaced, but our Parliament can handle the matter just as it has handled assisted suicide, equal marriage and section 28. I wish to draw on those examples of how our Parliament has matured into the national forum that it is today. During the debate on section 28 in the early days of the...

Human Rights and Civil Liberties — Motion to Take Note ( 2 Jul 2015)

Lord Cashman: ...ashes of peoples’ hopes and dreams and, yes, the ashes from concentration camps dotted across Europe. We have seen the least favoured defended—people like me in the 1980s, having no rights as a gay man—through Stonewall and through courageous individuals pursuing their cause, literally dragging their cases through the courts of the United Kingdom to prove that they could go to the...

Opposition Day — [1st allotted day]: Housing (10 Jun 2015)

Catherine West: ...a relatively short space of time—democracy is certainly alive and kicking in Hornsey and Wood Green. My predecessor, Lynne Featherstone, was well respected locally for her ministerial work on gay marriage and her campaigning for an end to the vile practice of female genital mutilation—causes that I am sure she will continue to pursue. I am very pleased to speak on housing and equally...

Queen’s Speech — Debate (3rd Day) (Continued) ( 1 Jun 2015)

Lord Cashman: ...note, I come from a minority which is still much maligned and misrepresented. Even today, our rights in some parts of the United Kingdom are still resisted or denied. The rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual people are still not universally welcomed or accepted in the United Kingdom. Sadly, even in Northern Ireland, same-sex marriage is still not legal or available. I remember...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members' Business: Human Rights Act 1998 ( 1 Jun 2015)

Paul Givan: ...legislated for, but at least it was democratically elected people who brought the change in; it was not the judges or the courts. I am opposed to other things that have been brought in, like gay marriage in the rest of the United Kingdom, but at least it was through the democratic process that it happened; it was not some cultural warrior wearing a wig in a courthouse who brought in the...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Adjournment: Suicide Prevention: Londonderry (12 May 2015)

Ross Hussey: ...stays with the family. What are the causes? If we knew all the causes, we would know all the answers. Certainly, bullying is one of them. There are also legal highs, alcohol, depression, debt, marriage breakdown and work-related issues. We will see that more and more as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) sets in to members of the security forces, for example, or perhaps to those who...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members' Business: Marriage Equality (27 Apr 2015)

Daithí McKay: ...about them ... Get over it. Get over yourself." That is not a mature response for an MP, an MLA, an MEP or any elected representative on this island. Churches, of course, have different views on marriage equality. Political parties have different views on it as well. Danny Kinahan made an important point when he said that marriage was not just a religious institution. We have civil...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members' Business: Marriage Equality (27 Apr 2015)

Simon Hamilton: ...inevitably lower self-esteem and create unnecessary divisions. Different approaches are not lesser or discriminatory, and it is wrong to imply that a civil partnership is an inferior status. Our marriage law recognises the unique relationship between a man and a woman, just as our law on civil partnerships recognises the unique relationship between two people of the same sex. Those who...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Committee Business: Northern Ireland Act 1998: Report on the Operation of the Provisions of Parts 3 and 4 (27 Apr 2015)

Basil McCrea: ..., a peace process or any other process. We have far more important things to deal with, whether they be youth unemployment, trying to get the economy going or trying to sort out our stance on gay marriage or any of the other issues that affect us. Let us have proper debate. But, do you know what? We cannot. Everything comes back to whether we will have Marty as First Minister or...

Private Investigators — Question (26 Mar 2015)

Baroness Smith of Basildon: My Lords, I find the Minister’s answer incredible. The consultation that he referred to was nearly three years ago and it had the highest number of responses of any consultation except that on gay marriage. In fact, the responses were unanimous on that occasion. Does the Minister realise that fewer police officers means that private security is replacing and working alongside the police,...

[Mr Philip Hollobone in the Chair] — Backbench Business — Commonwealth Day (24 Mar 2015)

Crispin Blunt: ...and its institutions provided a suitable vehicle through which to identify and work for one of the causes that I intended to use my parliamentary position to pursue: the protection of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights around the world. Within that nexus, I was happy to become chair of the parliamentary friends of the Kaleidoscope Trust, a non-governmental organisation...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members' Business: Equality Legislation: Revised Wording (16 Mar 2015)

Edwin Poots: ...force individuals to think particular things. It is sad that the Ashers case came to the fore through a cake that was to be used by the Alliance Party's Mayor of North Down, I believe, to promote gay marriage. I am happy to be challenged on that. If someone is not in support of gay marriage, why go to their business and seek to force them to provide that support? It is wrong that...

Opposition Day — [15th Allotted Day]: Sustainable Development Goals (28 Jan 2015)

Mary Creagh: The Secretary of State will have her chance when she makes her speech. We want girls to enjoy their education free from the threat of child or forced marriage. However, Tory MEPs voted against the European Parliament’s report on sustainable development goals and on the section on women’s sexual and reproductive rights. We want to tackle the economic conditions and supply chains that...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members' Business: Driving Licences: Union Flag (27 Jan 2015)

Anna Lo: ...support the motion, as a standard UK-wide licence could be acceptable. However, if people want standardisation across the UK, I look forward to the DUP changing its stance on issues such as the gay blood ban, equal marriage and the Climate Change Act, which, so far, it has rejected on the basis that we are different.

New Clause 1 — Judaeo-Christian tradition (16 Jan 2015)

James Arbuthnot: ...anathema to the people listening to it. Let me give the hon. Gentleman another example, in a Christian context. What happens if the prayers call on God to grant enlightenment to those who support gay marriage? That might be anathema to some of the councillors who do support gay marriage. What should one do as a councillor in those circumstances? Should one heckle the priest or the imam?...

Serious Crime Bill [Lords] ( 5 Jan 2015)

Fiona Mactaggart: ...been cut up. Our ambition should therefore be to change the thinking and to create a consciousness which rejects this form of abuse. We in Parliament know that we can do that. We have done it on gay rights and gay marriage, for example, and on a number of other things. We can change thinking. However, although I am glad that there are still a few Members in the Chamber at 9 pm on this...


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