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June 17, 2012

Telegraph: Will gay marriage end in divorce for church and state?

by Cole Moreton
The Telegraph

 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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