AS one of many who has gay relatives and as an educator in opposition to bigoted correspondents such as Dr T. Baxter - who seems to label gays as the equivalent of promiscuous heterosexuals - I can only welcome, as a socialist, the Liberal Democrats conference resolution in favour of civil union benefits equality.
The media have high-handedly ignored, however, the fact the Lib Dems' historic decision is a copy of the Canadian government's recent decision, passed through the Ottawa Commons and Senate and does not give the full equality of marriage dignity.
-Lawrence Irvine Iles, The Drive, Hove
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