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UK: Greens urge - end ban on religious civil partnerships
Current law forces churches to discriminate against gay couples
24 February, 2010
LONDON — The Greens have become the first and and only political party to officially support an end to the ban on civil partnerships being conducted in places of worship.
The new Green Party policy would allow gay-affirmative churches, such the Quakers, Unitarians and Metropolitan Community Church, to host civil partnership ceremonies for the first time. They are currently prohibited by law from hosting religious civil partnerships.
The vote at the Green Party's Spring conference, which took place in London on the weekend, makes the Greens unique among British political parties. No other party has the same commitment to end this discrimination.
By a near unanimous vote, Green delegates voted to strike down the ban on religious civil partnerships.
The motion was proposed by human rights rights campaigner Peter Tatchell, who is also the Green Party's human rights spokesperson. It was seconded by Darren Johnson, the openly gay Green member of the London Assembly and the Green parliamentary candidate for Lewisham Deptford. – Issued by OUTRAGE!
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