We’ve been campaigning for the legal recognition of humanist marriage in England and Wales – something that is already available and increasingly popular in Scotland. Currently, humanist weddings in England and Wales have no legal force of their own, and couples are required to pay a visit to the registry office to make their marriages …
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Government set to U-turn on equal humanist marriage
December 15th, 2014 | Posted by in Blog | News - (0 Comments)Government objection to humanist marriage is ‘nonsense on stilts’ (says Tory MP!)
May 29th, 2013 | Posted by in News - (0 Comments)When a Tory MP describes his own Government’s top lawyer’s opinion as ‘nonsense on stilts’, you know you are watching something new in the Commons. For three hours during the Equal Marriage Bill debate, Labour led a cross-Party move to change the law to have legal marriage for humanist couples in England and Wales, as …
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