LONDON — Conservative Party members in Britain have written to their leader, Prime Minister David Cameron, to urge him to delay a parliamentary vote on gay marriage.
David Cameron
The politicians warned that the ruling party will lose significant numbers of voters in the 2015 election if the plans enter law.
Lawmakers are due to get their first vote Tuesday on the proposed bill, which would enable same-sex couples to get married in both civil and religious ceremonies. It would also allow couples who had entered into civil partnerships to convert their relationship to a marriage.
More than 20 heads of local Conservative associations delivered a letter urging a delay in the vote to Downing Street on Sunday.
Cameron supports the bill, but the issue has divided his Conservative Party.
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Everything is bigger in Texas – even the homophobia
Ha. Even in the Uk, conservatives are more concerned than we are over gay marriage.
So they want a delay because they think they will lose? Or do they know they will win the vote in the Parliament and be outed as hating close minded bigots to the voters who will QUICKLY THOW THEM OUT? Thoughts?
I’m ashamed of my country now.
What good would a delay accomplish? It just postpones the inevitable and in the meantime many more people will be harmed because the UK doesn’t have marriage equality.
‘Let right be done’. (The Winslow Boy- T. Ratigan)
The UK has conservatives UGHHHH is there anywhere that doesn’t???
This is long overdue and I would love to be proud of my home country