Gordon Brown Promises To Fight For UK Civil Partnership Rights To Be Recognised Across The EU
Posted: 16th Dec 2009 Author: Michelle Penny Topics: News
The UK prime minister Gordon Brown has said in a interview with gay lifestyle magazine, Attitude, that he is focused on making sure the rights of British civil partnerships are recognised across the EU, including Eastern Europe, believing “respect for gay people was due”.
Saying that agreements with both France and Spain are already in negotiations, Brown pointed to the proposed roll backs of civil partnerships in the USA as inspiration saying these “…are people who have made a commitment to each other and clearly loved each other, who are now to be faced with this idea that it was going to be rescinded. It’s totally unacceptable”, and how he was not willing to see couples who had had civil partnerships in the UK lose their rights when living across Europe.
With a general election being held in the UK in 2010, all three political parties are looking to win the gay vote, with the Conservative leader winning some support for his apology for Section 28, a Conservative piece of legislation that banned the “promotion” of homosexuality in schools, but also being criticised for forming alliances with Polish politiciand in the European parliament who are seen to be homophobic.
