The Gay UK Issue 3 Marriage | Page 60

THEGAYUK APRIL/MAY ISSUE 3 2014 MARRIAGE SPECIAL On 2 February 2011, the Equal Love campaign filed a legal case in the European Court of Human Rights. Bought by four same-sex couples and four opposite-sex couples, it sought to have declared illegal the UK’s twin discriminations in civil marriage and civil partnership legislation. Just as same-sex couples were barred from civil marriage, oppositesex couples were (and still are) prohibited from having a civil partnership. Our aim was to end both forms of legal discrimination. See the Equal Love legal case here: http://bit.ly/xJumfO Up until this point, David Cameron an BF