Gay Marriage in UK Law
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M v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
... ... , both the law and public opinion withheld their sanction from a relationship between a man and a woman which was not sanctified by marriage or at least regularised by civil ceremony, and homosexual relationships were criminalised or condemned. When extra-marital heterosexual relationships ... ...
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RT (Zimbabwe) and Others v Secretary of State for the Home Department [Sup Ct]
... ... He would be able to account for his absence from Zimbabwe by reference to his studies in the United Kingdom and the breakdown of his marriage whilst he was here. He had returned to Zimbabwe in 2003 without difficulty ... 8 RT, SM and AM all appealed to the Court of Appeal. The ... ...
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Lee v Ashers Baking Company Ltd and Others
... ... , or on grounds of religious belief or political opinion, for a bakery to refuse to supply a cake iced with the message “support gay marriage” because of the sincere religious belief of its owners that gay marriage is inconsistent with Biblical teaching and therefore unacceptable to God ... ...
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Ghaidan v Godin-Mendoza
... ... But marriage is not essential for this purpose. A person who was living with the original tenant 'as his or her wife or husband' is treated as the spouse of the ... ...
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Fitzpatrick v Sterling Housing Association Ltd
... ... including two persons of the same sex intimately linked in a relationship which is not merely transient and which has all the indicia of a marriage save that the parties cannot have children. In the second place he says that the intimacy of the relationship of two persons living together as he ... ...
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Fitzpatrick v Sterling Housing Association Ltd
... ... 8 A further sub-section applied the categories in (b) to cases where the relevant relationship was by marriage, step relationship, or half blood ... 9 It is to be noted that although advantage was taken by Parliament when enacting the Housing Act 1980 of ... ...
- Wilkinson v Kitzinger and Another (Same-sex marriage)
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Johns v Derby City Council
... ... 4 The claimants are members of the Pentecostalist Church and believe that sexual relations other than those within marriage between one man and one woman are morally wrong. Between August 1992 and January 1995 they were approved as foster carers by Derbyshire County ... ...
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Mr Adrian Smith v Trafford Housing Trust
... ... 't understand why people who have no faith and don't believe in Christ would want to get hitched in church the bible is quite specific that marriage is for men and women if the state wants to offer civil marriage to same sex then that is up to the state; but the state shouldn't impose it's rules ... ...
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Attorney General for Bermuda v Roderick Ferguson and Others
... ... OVERVIEW OF THIS APPEAL ... 1 This appeal is about whether the law of Bermuda recognises same-sex marriage. Section 53 of the Domestic Partnership Act 2018 of Bermuda (“the DPA ”) confines marriage to a union between a man and a woman. However, ... ...
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