Two people meet and fall in love. They want it to be for life, so they get
married. Simple, isn’t it? Theresa May, the Home Secretary, thinks so: “Put
simply, it’s not right that a couple who love each other and want to
formalise a commitment to each other should be denied the right to marry.”
That’s why May wants to allow couples of the same sex to marry on exactly the
same terms as a man and woman. The Government has asked for opinions on how
this should be done, but not whether it should be done at all – which has
upset those opposed to the move. The consultation that closed a few days ago
has received more than 100,000 submissions, the biggest response ever to an
exercise of this kind.
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