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Christian coalition petitions to stop gay marriage law Christian campaigners are petitioning Prime Minister David Cameron to stop the introduction of same-sex marriage. Coalition for Marriage (C4M) said it was emailing 175,000 people with a petition against the government's plan to legislate for gay marriage by 2015. Former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey backed C4M, saying the plan was a "hostile strike" on marriage. But gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell said C4M's stance on marriage was homophobic and discriminatory. "The Coalition for Marriage is intolerant and out of touch," Mr Tatchell said. "Coalition members are entitled to believe that same-sex marriages are wrong, but they are not entitled to demand that their opposition to such marriages should be imposed on the rest of society and enforced by law." Government proposals In September, Liberal Democrat Equalities Minister Lynne Featherstone announced the coalition government's proposals to legislate for same-sex marriage. David Cameron told last October's Conservative Party conference he supported gay marriage. A public consultation on how to make civil marriage available to same-sex couples will be launched in March. C4M's petition states: "I support the legal definition of marriage which is the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others. I oppose any attempt to redefine it." At a media conference in central London, Lord Carey said he had signed the petition. "The avowed intention to widen the scope of marriage as we see before us is a hostile strike, which rather than strengthening marriage, will destroy its meaning and diminish its importance drastically," he said. "The legal and theological definition of marriage is that of a man and a woman in a lifelong relationship. The government has many difficult duties to perform on behalf of the nation it is elected to serve. But it is not in its gift to alter such a fundamental relationship." Lord Carey said legalising gay marriage would be "an act of cultural and theological vandalism". In response to the launch of the petition, Ben Summerskill - chief executive of gay, lesbian and bisexual charity Stonewall - said: "Our strong advice to anyone who disagrees with same-sex marriage is not to get married to someone of the same sex."
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समलिङ्गी विवाहलाई पूर्ण कानुनी मान्यता जर्मनीका अधिकारकर्मीहरुले जर्मन संसदले समलिङ्गी विवाहलाई वैधानिकतादिने संबन्धी विधेयक पारित गरेकोमा खुसियाली मनाएका छन्। उक्त विधेयक साठी प्रतिशतभन्दा बढी मतले पारित भएको थियो। अब जर्मनीमा समलिङ्गी विवाहलाई पूर्ण कानुनी मान्यता दिइएको छ र उनीहरुले धर्मपुत्र वा धर्मपुत्री पाल्न पनि पाउनेछन्। मतदान जर्मन संसदमा आकस्मिकरुपमा ल्याइएको प्रस्तावको पक्षमा ३९३ र विपक्षमा २२६ सांसदहरुले मत हालेका थिए। चार जना अनुपस्थित रहे। आउँदो सेप्टेम्बर महिनामा नयाँ जर्मन संसदकालागि चुनाव हुनुअघि पारित हुने यो नै सबैभन्दा महत्वपूर्ण विधेयक भएको ठानिएको छ। जर्मन चान्सलर एङ्गेला मर्केलले विधेयकको विपक्षमा मतदान गरिन्। विधेयक पारित भएपछि बोल्दै उनले भनिन्, उनी विवाह भनेको पुरुष र महिलाबीच नै हुन्छ भन्ठान्छिन्। तर उनले भनिन्, "यो विधेयक पारित भएपछि यसले जर्मन समाजमा सामाजिक र शान्तिलाई बढावा दिनेछ भन्ने मैले आशा लिएकी छु।" मान्यता बर्लिनस्थित बीबीसी संवाददाता जेनी हिल भन्छिन्, समलिङ्गी विवाहलाई मान्यता दिने संबन्धी विधेयक संसदमा मतदानकालागि लगेर चान्सलर मर्केलले उनको सहयोगी दल एसपीडीलाई खुसी पारेकी छन्। उनी आफैले विधेयकको पक्षमा मतदान गरेकाले उनको दल सिडियुका अनुदारवादीहरु पनि उनीसंग प्रसन्न नै हुनेछन्। यस अघि नर्वे, स्वीडेन, ब्रिटेन, फ्रान्स, आयरल्याण्ड लगायतका युरोपेली मुलुकहरुले समलिङ्गी विवाहलाई मान्यता दिने संबन्धी कानुन पारित गरिसकेका छन्। तर अष्ट्रिया र इटलीमा भने अझै समलिङ्गी विवाहले पूर्ण कानुनी मान्यता पाएको छैन।