The UK is continuing to push ahead with equality for all.
From queeried.com:
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a commitment to each other and clearly loved each other, who are now to be faced with this idea that it was going to be rescinded.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.
While at the same time, a congressman is actively fighting against LGBT rights even though his dad was an LGBT activist:
The son of the man who wrote a book that acted to promote tolerance of the LGBT community, and show gay couples can be as stable, loyal and devoted as any heterosexual couples, is trying his darned hardest to do the exact opposite.
When I was younger I wanted to live in the states, that dream has died more and more over the years and now, it’s the last place I’d want to live. The “free” country is a distant dream, as the world moves forward, America is left behind.
