Same-sex civil marriage by 2015
The government has promised to allow same-sex civil marriage in England and Wales by 2015.
There has been a mixed reaction from equality campaigners. Equalities minister Lynne Featherstone said that a consultation on the subject – delayed from this year – will begin in spring 2012. ‘To deny one group of people the same opportunities available to another is not simply discriminatory, she said, ‘It is simply not fair.’
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