Will and Kate invited to support Equal Love Campaign
Campaign sends good wishes for Royal wedding
The world’s most famous nearly-married couple received a thought-provoking and unusual gift on Monday, when supporters of same-sex marriage attempted to recruit them to their campaign.
Activists gathered outside Buckingham Palace with a giant wedding card for Kate Middleton and William Windsor, although they were not available to receive it in person. The card’s signatories congratulated the couple and urged them to support the Equal Love campaign.
The campaigners argue that the law is discriminatory as it restricts same-sex couples to civil partnerships. Quaker activist Kristin Skarsholt told the Friend that the law is ‘segregating same-sex and different-sex couples into different institutions’.
She and her partner Ian Goggin are one of four mixed-sex couples who attempted to register a civil partnership last year, while four same-sex couples applied for permission to marry (see ‘Equal Love campaign launched’, the Friend, 5 November 2010). All were turned down and have begun a legal challenge.
