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May 8, 2013
Equal Marriage campaign is shortlisted for Scottish Charity Awards

Equal rights campaigners are thrilled to be nominated for ‘Campaign of the Year’ and ‘People’s Choice’

Equal Marriage has been recognized for its efforts to legalize LGBT marriage in Scotland. The charity supported campaign has been listed for ‘Campaign of the Year’ and the ‘People’s Choice’ at the Scottish Charity Awards.

The campaign has been running since 2008 and aims to change the law to allow same sex couples to get married.

It also fights for faith and belief groups to conduct same-sex marriage and to end the requirement that transgender people must divorce before attaining Gender Recognition.

March 20, 2013
Hours left to save gay marriage in Scotland

Public consultation on equal marriage bill in Scotland will end today and anti-gay campaigners are trying to include opt-outs, education bans and restrictions on teachers

LGBT people and their allies in Scotland have less than five hours to ensure a public consultation on gay marriage goes their way.

Anti-gay campaigners are trying to derail the Scottish Parliament’s marriage equality bill – calling for limitations so officials can refuse to wed lesbian and gay couples and teachers can tell their pupils that gay marriage is wrong.

And the public consultation on the bill will close at 5pm local time this evening (20 March).

February 23, 2013
Cardinal Keith O’Brien says priests should be allowed to marry but not gays

Leader of UK's Roman Catholic Church suggested that priests should be given the choice to get married but not gays

The UK’s most senior Catholic cleric said that male priests should be able to marry women, while bitterly opposing gay marriage.

During an interview with BBC Scotland, Cardinal Keith O’Brien stated that Jesus did not say that clergy should remain celibate.

February 3, 2013
Scots equality charity warns against anti-gay scare tactics

Anti-gay marriage campaign tactics have been slammed as scaremongering by Scotland's equality campaigners

Scotland for Marriage, an anti-gay marriage campaign group has warned that the same-sex marriage bill will compromise ‘civil liberty’, that anyone opposing it could be ‘sacked’, refused as foster parents, and discriminated in school.

The stepping up of the anti-gay marriage campaign comes as the Scottish Government launched a consultation on its draft legislation to legalise same-sex marriage in December.

Equality campaigners have slammed today (3 Feburary) the group for misleading information and anti-gay scare tactics.

December 13, 2012
Scotland unveils draft gay marriage bill

Scotland makes history by becoming the first part of the United Kingdom to publish legislation to allow same-sex marriage

The Scottish government launched the ‘Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Bill’, which will introduce marriage equality, yesterday (12 December) alongside a 14-week consultation on its implementation.

The draft legislation will allow same-sex marriage in Scotland and give all religious and belief bodies (for example Humanist) the right to conduct same-sex marriages, if they wish to do so.

The bill will also remove the requirement on a married or civil partnered transgender person to divorce before obtaining full Gender Recognition.

October 10, 2012
Catholic Church: Scotland gay marriage bullies children as Nazis

The Catholic Church has alleged that children are bullied and branded as Nazis if they oppose marriage equality in Scotland

The Catholic Church has claimed that school children as young as 12 who disagree with marriage equality in Scotland have been branded as ‘Nazis’ and ‘bigots’.

John Deighan, the Roman Catholic Church's parliamentary officer in Scotland, claimed that the Catholic Church and children are being victimized because of the planned Scottish marriage equality bill which is due to be put to the vote early next year.

September 19, 2012
Over 30,000 sign Scottish anti-gay marriage online petition

An online petition opposing plans to legislate marriage equality attracted over 30,000 signatures. The petition has been widely criticised as misleading, scaremongering and out of touch with a majority of Scots opinion

An online petition had managed to attracted over 30,000 signatories against Scotland's proposed marriage equality bill.

The Scottish Government announced in July that it proposes bringing in legislation for marriage equality, which will allow same-sex couples to the right wed as their straight counterparts.

Scottish Ministers declared that it is the ‘right thing to do’ in a move that received widespread support from the public, equality, human rights and faith campaigners.

August 29, 2012
Scottish Catholics 'hurting gay bullying work with marriage fight'

Catholic Church says Scottish schools should teach same-sex marriage is 'risky and dangerous'

LGBT Youth Scotland have hit back at comments made by the Catholic Church in Scotland saying schools should teach that same-sex marriage is dangerous.

As the ‘war’ over same-sex marriage in Scotland continues, the Catholic Church is speaking out against the introduction of Curriculum for Excellence (CFE), which ensures that young people supported around the idea of health and wellbeing.

April 19, 2012
Scottish imams call gay marriage 'attack' on Islam

Muslim clerics in Glasgow have opposed the Scottish government's plans to legalize same-sex marriage, despite majority support

Muslim leaders in Scotland’s biggest city say gay marriage is an ‘attack’ on Islam.

The Council of Glasgow Imams issued a ‘resolution opposing same-sex marriage’ at the city's Central Mosque, which claimed the main purpose of marriage is ‘the procreation of children’.

They added that the government’s plans were an ‘attack’ on their faith and fundamental beliefs.

April 16, 2012
Scottish Catholics submit anti-gay marriage petition

Catholic group hand petition of 1,000 signatures opposed to gay marriage to Scotland's Deputy First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon

A Catholic group in Scotland have handed an anti-gay marriage petition of 1,000 signatures to one of the country's senior politicians.

Members from the Knights of St Columba handed it to Nicola Sturgeon, the MSP for Glasgow Southside and Scotland's Deputy First Minister, at her surgery.

A public consultation on whether to legalize gay marriage in Scotland closed on the 9 December, attracting over 70,000 responses, making it the biggest consultation in the history of the Scottish Parliament.

February 6, 2012
‘Legalise gay marriage’ youths tell Scottish parliament

All major political party youth groups unite in favour of gay and lesbian marriage in Scotland

The youth and student wings of Scotland’s political parties have today united to demand the Scottish Parliament legalise same-sex marriage.

The leaders of SNP Students, Scottish Labour Students, Scottish Young Labour, Conservative Future Scotland, Liberal Youth Scotland, and the Scottish Young Greens have written a joint letter to every Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) calling on them to pledge their support for the Equal Marriage campaign.

January 25, 2012
Scottish petition to ban gay marriage under fire

Equality campaigners call Preserving Marriage petition 'outdated, inaccurate' and 'appalling'

A petition calling on the Scottish Government to make no changes to the current definition of marriage as being a union between a man and a woman has come under fire from equality campaigners.

The Preseving Marriage petition, which currently has 2,587 signatures, was started by Amy King and opposes the proposed introduction of same-sex marriage in Scotland.

December 9, 2011
Scot's gay marriage gains support

Same-sex marriage in Scotland is a step closer after 50,000 responded to the government's consultation

More than 50,000 responses have been submitted to the Scottish government's consultation on the introduction of gay marriage.

The governing Scottish National Party's (SNP) ministers support the move but some in the party oppose allowing gay couples to marry. A 'rainbow coalition' of groups including The Equality Network, Amnesty International, Unison and the Humanist Society of Scotland all filed submissions supporting changing the law.

December 7, 2011
Magnificent seven push for Scottish marriage

Activists have united to back Scotland's plan to replace civil partnership with full gay marriage rights

Seven groups campaigning for equal rights for gay couples have united to back the Scottish Government plans to legalise same-sex marriage.

Members of the Equality Network, the Scottish Youth Parliament, Amnesty International, UNISON, the Humanist Society of Scotland, LGBT Youth Scotland and NUS Scotland joined together on 7 December at the Scottish Youth Parliament offices to announce their support for equal marriage in Scotland.