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February 7, 2013
To win gay marriage, we must love our enemies as well as our partners

We must remain dignified in the face of the hate groups who are undermining the fight for gay and lesbian marriage equality

Tuesday (5 February) was a historic day for gay people in England and Wales. By a majority of 225, Members of Parliament (MPs) voted overwhelmingly in favor of the bill to allow couples of the same sex to marry.

February 5, 2013
Black Christian MP tells House gay marriage must not be separate but equal

David Lammy: 'Separate but equal is the language that tried to push Rosa Parks to the back of the bus'

A member of parliament has given an impassioned argument for marriage equality in the House of Commons today.

David Lammy, a black Labour MP, said the ‘Separate but Equal’ argument anti-gay marriage people use is flawed.

He said: ‘Let me speak frankly. “Separate but equal” is a fraud.

‘Separate but equal is the language that tried to push Rosa Parks to the back of the bus.

February 5, 2013
Black Christian MP tells House gay marriage must not be separate but equal

David Lammy: 'Separate but equal is the language that tried to push Rosa Parks to the back of the bus'

A member of parliament has given an impassioned argument for marriage equality in the House of Commons today.

David Lammy, a black Labour MP, said the ‘Separate but Equal’ argument anti-gay marriage people use is flawed.

He said: ‘Let me speak frankly. “Separate but equal” is a fraud.

‘Separate but equal is the language that tried to push Rosa Parks to the back of the bus.

April 4, 2012
UK MPs sever links with anti-gay Christians

British MPs say they will no-longer take interns from Christian Action Research and Education (CARE) which has supported ‘gay cure’ events

Two more British MPs have pledged to stop taking interns from a Christian organization which backs ‘gay cures’.

Christian Action Research and Education (CARE) have previously supported events which promote ‘curing’ homosexuality and ask if being gay ‘is real’. Its chief executive is a director of the Coalition for Marriage, the religious-based hate group attempting to block plans for fully-equal same-sex marriage in Britain.

March 16, 2012
UK MP cuts ties to Christian gay ‘cure’ charity

Pro-LGBT shadow minister Liz Kendall took interns from CARE but didn’t know about their ‘extreme views’

Another British MP, Liz Kendall, has pulled out of an intern program run by a homophobic Christian charity.

Kendall, who is in Labour leader Ed Milliband’s shadow minister team, said she found the charity’s views ‘deeply offensive’.

Campaigner Phillip Dawson started a campaign after he discovered Christian Action Research and Education (CARE) was funding interns for members of parliament.

March 16, 2012
UK MP cuts ties to Christian gay ‘cure’ charity

Pro-LGBT shadow minister Liz Kendall took interns from CARE but didn’t know about their ‘extreme views’

Another British MP, Liz Kendall, has pulled out of an intern program run by a homophobic Christian charity.

Kendall, who is in Labour leader Ed Milliband’s shadow minister team, said she found the charity’s views ‘deeply offensive’.

Campaigner Phillip Dawson started a campaign after he discovered Christian Action Research and Education (CARE) was funding interns for members of parliament.

February 22, 2012
Christian ‘gay cure’ supporters fund British MPs’ interns

Campaigner calls for investigation after it emerges that a Christian group that backs ‘gay cures’ embeds interns with MPs

A campaigner has demanded an investigation after it emerged that a Christian organization which backs ‘gay cures’ is also supporting British MPs.

Christian Action Research and Education (CARE) backed a conference in April 2009 which discussed ‘therapeutic approaches to and understandings of same sex attraction’ and ‘mentoring the sexually broken’.

The conference included a speaker from JONAH, a Jewish organization which has becoming increasingly controversial for its ‘gay cure’ therapies.