Earlier this week we reported on the Equality Network’s meetings to discuss the proposals for changes to the law on partnership recognition in Scotland. As well as those meetings there is now an online questionnaire – which you can fill in here.
Same-sex marriage has been legalised in the Netherlands (2001), Belgium (2003), Spain (2005), Canada (2005), South Africa (2006), Norway (2009), and in the USA the states of Massachusetts (2003) and Connecticut (2008). In the UK this is a devolved matter so this is a separate campaign in Scotland from the review of marriage law which has been announced for England and Wales by the Coalition Government in London. Scotland could bring in this change ahead of the rest of the UK – just as Section 28 was scrapped there three years before it was abolished in the rest of Britain.
If you’d like to help the campaign to bring about change and remove the gender restrictions around marriage and civil partnerships in Scotland, you can email can order campaign materials from us by contacting tom@equality-network.org – act soon!
